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Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:05:51 +0200
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Subject: Re: Cross-Compiling Ada to Netware with GNAT
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Marco wrote:
> Jeffrey > I suspect there's probably a fairly easy way to get a version
> of GNAT that will
>> produce output suitable for nlmconv, but as a last resort you could look into a
>> compiler that generates C as its intermediate language, such as the one from
>> Sofcheck:
>>
>> http://www.sofcheck.com/products/adamagic.html
> 
>    I have never used this product but it seems that it would be kind of
> a pain to "debug" or integrate from the generated code back to the
> source code (by the way what marketing guy came up with those horrible
> product names).

It is quite common for C to be a target language.
The C files refer back to the original sources
via #line directives, for example. This has worked well
for several decades, in several setups.