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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: ada -> C translator
Date: 1997/04/07
Date: 1997-04-07T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5i9r5t$nb6@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.860361046@merv


dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>But we are talking here about generating very low level C, which will for
>instance have to reflect various requirements for the ABI in which it
>is generated (e.g. length of standard types, representation of types,
>calling sequence rules etc). 

Why will the C generated C code have to reflect ABI requirements?
Does conformance to the Ada standard require using a particular ABI?
Can't an Ada implementation make up its own ABI?

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  reply	other threads:[~1997-04-07  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-04-03  0:00 ada -> C translator Gabriel Monaton
1997-04-03  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-06  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-04  0:00       ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-05  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-06  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00             ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1997-04-07  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` William Clodius
1997-04-09  0:00                     ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-08  0:00                 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1997-04-09  0:00                     ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-09  0:00                         ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-10  0:00                             ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09  0:00                       ` William Clodius
     [not found] ` <lvlo6iwws8.fsf@sulu.fl.ensco.com>
1997-04-17  0:00   ` Lance Kibblewhite
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