Re: Compiling Ada into C

[wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)]

In article <2460@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>, neff@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Randy Neff) writes:
> Why do people want to compile Ada into C?

Your nine observations that follow this question are correct.  They
are also obvious.  If you were writing an Ada compiler that compiled
to assembly code, or directly to object code, you would also have to
take all of this into account.  The simple fact is C is much more
portable than any assembler.  If you write an Ada compiler that
compiles to Rolm 1666 assembler, the compiler can only generate code
for the 1666 and similar processors.  If you write it to produces C,
you can run it on many processors, you just have to port the
executable (probably written in C itself) to the target machine.
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