From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,6a7cfec93e22adfc
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-02 09:04:14 PST
From: "Ira D. Baxter" <idbaxter@semdesigns.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: ada to C++ translation
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 11:13:23 -0600
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300
NNTP-Posting-Host: t1-30.realtime.net
Message-ID: <3c81060d$1@giga.realtime.net>
X-Trace: giga.realtime.net 1015088653 t1-30.realtime.net (2 Mar 2002 11:04:13
 -0600)
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!giga.realtime.net
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20698
Date: 2002-03-02T11:13:23-06:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

"Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
news:3C7FBEAE.B46E2EC5@boeing.com...
> "Ira D. Baxter" wrote:
> >
> > "John Hayward" <haywardjohn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:d4a6cd7e.0202281909.25488168@posting.google.com...
> > > Does anybody have information on Ada to C++ language translators?
> > >
> > We build custom translators based on our generalized compiler
technology,
> > DMS.
> > See
http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/DMS/Porting/Porting_files/frame.htm.
>
> Very interesting. That link shows me a couple of blank frames.

It does?  I just checked it with IE5.  No blank frames.
What browser are you using?

> How does your generalized compiler technology translate Ada tasks and
protected
> objects into C++?

We presently don't have an Ada to C++ translator.
Our tools are used to construct custom translators, and the claim
is that we can build such a translator.
For example, we have build JOVIAL to C translators.
And we have a nice start; our tools already can process Ada95
and C++, so the real task is to define the map between them.

How such things are defined are usually defined by customer dictate.
The value in our approach is that we *can* do that,
relatively economically.

The question for any Ada-to-C++ translation is,
what is the economic payoff in doing that?
If it exceeds significantly the cost of the custom translator,
then such a translator make sense.

The original poster asked what people know about such tools.