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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:48:29 +0200
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Subject: Re: Porting from Modula-2 to Ada
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SteveD wrote:
> 
> "Manuel Collado" <m.collado@lml.ls.fi.upm.es> wrote in message
> news:3DAFC542.152C0EE0@lml.ls.fi.upm.es...
> [snip]
> First: I have translated a significant amount of Pascal code to Ada.  From
> this experience I would recommend producing a tool to do most of the
> translation.

I've already done that.

> 
> Making the mapping you just described should be fairly easy for such a tool.
> 
> The only alternate for this implementation that comes to mind is to create
> arrays of bytes that alias each structure and passing the alias to Xxx.  For
> example:
> [snip]

Thanks for the suggestion.
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