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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter
Date: 1997/04/02
Date: 1997-04-02T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5htfka$vqd$1@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5hfble$4d0$1@news.pacifier.com


In article <5hfble$4d0$1@news.pacifier.com> steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel) writes:
>Has anyone done any work to make the GCC back end generate 'C' code?  It
>seems that this might be beneficial to all ports that use the GCC back end.

No one has done this and I don't think this would be all that useful.
When you consider that many front ends (specifically that for Ada) use
features that aren't expressable in C (most notably discriminated
records), that C that would have to be produced would correspond a lot
more to an *interpreter* of the program than a compilation of it.

It might be an interesting exercise to do something like this, but I
don't think it would be as beneficial as you think.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-04-02  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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1997-03-26  0:00 ` Ada95 to ANSI_C converter Nick Roberts
1997-03-26  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-27  0:00     ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-28  0:00       ` Craig Franck
1997-03-28  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Steve Doiel
1997-03-28  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02  0:00         ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-02  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-04  0:00               ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-04  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00                   ` Arthur Schwarz
1997-04-07  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-07  0:00                     ` Peter Seebach
1997-04-07  0:00                       ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-02  0:00             ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-02  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02  0:00       ` Richard Kenner [this message]
1997-04-03  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-27  0:00   ` Craig Franck
1997-03-27  0:00     ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-27  0:00   ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-27  0:00     ` Philip Johnson
1997-04-01  0:00       ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-02  0:00         ` Philip E. Johnson
1997-04-03  0:00       ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28  0:00       ` Craig Franck
1997-03-28  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01  0:00     ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-01  0:00     ` David Kristola
1997-04-01  0:00       ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-01  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-03-27  0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-03-28  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-07  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-31  0:00 ` David Emery
1997-03-31  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-31  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03  0:00   ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-04  0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1997-04-16  0:00 Dan Lehman
1997-04-17  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-20  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-20  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
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