Translating Ada to C

Translating Ada to C

[Craig S. Dickson]

DOes anyone know where a translator may be located on the Net for downloading?
Otherwise I have access to gnatmake but I have no instructions on it. I think
it converts the Ada to C or something anyway. SO is it possible to get the c
code when you compile. ANy thoughts?

Thanks Craig

Re: Translating Ada to C

[Tore Joergensen]

Craig S. Dickson (dickson@ist.flinders.edu.au) wrote:
: DOes anyone know where a translator may be located on the Net for downloading?
: Otherwise I have access to gnatmake but I have no instructions on it. I think
: it converts the Ada to C or something anyway. SO is it possible to get the c
: code when you compile. ANy thoughts?

: Thanks Craig

GNAT does not convert Ada to C. 

You will probably not find an Ada to C converter, partly because Ada is a
much more advanced language than C and partly because it is so much better
that nobody would ever want to convert Ada to C :-) :-) :-)

Ada does have nice support for using C-code from an Ada-program, so maybe
you don't even have to convert it to C? Why do you want to convert it?
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Re: Translating Ada to C

[Joe Gwinn]

I guess I would always ask the target language folk how to translate 
to their language.  The proponents of the to-be-translated-away-from 
language will never see why you would do such a foolish thing as 
leave.  Notice that nobody inquired as to why you wanted to translate.

I might add that it rarely makes economic sense to translate working 
code into a new language, unless the old language can no longer be 
supported, for whatever reason.

Joe Gwinn

Craig S. Dickson wrote:
> 
> DOes anyone know where a translator may be located on the Net for downloading?
> Otherwise I have access to gnatmake but I have no instructions on it. I think
> it converts the Ada to C or something anyway. SO is it possible to get the c
> code when you compile. ANy thoughts?
> 
> Thanks Craig