Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ?

[tore@lis.pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen)]

Rusty Baldwin (rbaldwin@nvi.nvi.net) wrote:
: Thomas G. McWilliams wrote:
: > There exists a good Pascal to C translator called p2c available
: > in source code form (I think it might be GNU software). It might
: > serve as a rough basis on which to build something like this.
: > Perhaps you could run your Ada code through some Perl filters
: > and post-process with p2c. Very hackish, I know. Maybe a Modula
: > to C translator could be hacked more easily.
: Why don't you use the gnat (Ada 95) compiler.  It is a front end to the
: gcc compiler.  Perhaps there is a switch to generate C code??

C and C++ are two other front ends to the gcc compiler. I'm quite sure
that there isn't any switch for converting code between different 
front ends (wouldn't that be nice; C to C++ and Ada95 converter). BTW,
there are several other front ends too.
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