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Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
> Le Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:42:18 +0200, Stephen Leake
> <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> a écrit:
>> Yes, that's a non-starter.
>>
>> Be sure to mention GNAT's -fdump-ada-spec, which generates Ada package
>> specs from C code. That makes it _much_ easier to import C correctly.
>
> Is it a standard GCC option or does it requires a patched GCC ? I have
> built GCC and GNAT for a cross compiler some time ago, and do not
> remember  there was such an option in the configuration choices. This
> may suggest  “standard option”, but on the other hand, I cannot
> suppose this is a  standard GCC option as it is Ada related and GNAT
> specific.
>
> Thanks to have mentioned this.

It is a non-standard option insofar as it is not defined in the standard
(ARM).

AFAICT, this feature is present in GCC >= 4.5 and in GNAT GPL Edition >=
2010.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.