Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter

[xanadu@ripco.com (Jennifer E. Lee)]

Philip Johnson  <philipj@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>Jennifer E. Lee wrote:
>> Our system is an HP Broadband System which only knows C and TTCN.
>> Since our project is about the side of 10K to 13K LOC.
>> We believe that using an OO language like Ada95 would be a plus
>> for us in term of debugging and integration at the testing phase.
>> If we want to use C, at least we will look into how to code
>> C like an Object-based language like Ada with "PACKAGE" usage.
>> However, I really don't know how to do it without using CLASS
>> and INHERENT definitions.
>
>Jennifer,
>
>Why not write the application in Ada95 and use the Language interface
>to "talk" to the HP Broadband system.  I am using a similar approach
>to a data acquisition system now.  I wrote a simple interface package
>to converse with the DAS driver dlls and it seems to be working fine.  
>This was a proof of concept activity that convinced the customer that
>Ada95 was a good choice.  I am now into the main project.
>
>

Phil,

Thank you, but how?
The HP Broadband Systems (HPBS) only recognizes ANSI C and TTCN 
(Tree & Tabular Combined Notation) object codes.
Our clients want us to integrate their Ada95 OO code with our C codes 
which is almost impossible IMHO because C is not an OO language.
How do we convert Ada's _package_, TEXT_IO, .... to HP's C function?
The HPBS is a validation device for us to emulate our clients'
SDH/SONNET/ATM networks.

My idea is, 

Ada95_to_ANSIC 
BEGIN
        IF case I := Ada to C conversion not gonna to work;
                THEN we have recode our client's OO Ada code to C;

        ELSE case II := there is an Ada to C convertor;
                THEN we let the converter to fix the conversion problem;
END
  
OK, another question. 
How do you use C to code like an OO Ada program?
Thank you in advance.
      
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