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Jeffrey,

> What objection? I said an Ada-to-C++ translator is impossible, unless 
> you want to do what SofCheck has done and supply a portable runtime to 
> support concurrency in the generated C++. 

Or use your Ada-to-C converter to convert the GNAT runtime written in Ada.

Anyway, starting from the ASIS (XML or not) representation of the 
program may be a very very big task as you loose all the expanded code 
done by the compiler (and the proper sequence of calls to the runtime 
for the tasking support for example). It is probably best to start from 
the expanded tree... At least I would start there if I had to do that.

Pascal.

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