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>>Hello. Recently G. A. Craig Carey (mostly) and I reworked P2Ada, a
>>command-line Pascal to Ada translator.
>>
>>P2Ada is now able to translate large sources. Depending on
>>the sources, the pre-work needed to have a successful translation and
>>the rework after translation have been significantly reduced.
>>
>>Bugs fixed: a lot!
>>
>>Some of the new features:
>>
>>- Support for Sqr, Odd, Eof, Eoln, Read, ReadLn, Ord, Chr (standard
>>
> Pascal)
> 
>>     and type Double
>>- For Borland integers, a transitional package is provided.
>>- Turbo Pascal 7's CONST parameters translated.
>>- Set expressions better translated (in form of array of Boolean).
>>- A procedure Dispose is created for each access type.
>>- For variables of a structured type, P2Ada creates an ad-hoc type for
>>
> them.
> 
>>- Option to translate a "var" parameter by "var" instead
>>     of "in out": it is wrong but caught by the Ada compiler for the
>>
> rework.
> 
>>- Name of procedures and functions put after "end".
>>- Smarter recognition of variables (array elements, record fields,...)
>>- Bigger buffers for translating large sources.
>>- Added casing of Ada keywords (upper/lower/neutral).
>>
>>Enjoy!


How well can P2Ada handle BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) in Turbo Pascal? 
I have a very old program written in Turbo Pascal with BCD and I am 
interested to have it translated to Ada. About 17KSLOC.
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