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Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator
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TED:

> You might as well take all your C code and rewrite it in Assembler
> while you are at it.

Beside the question of downgrading all modern software to the old
PDP-7 macro-assembler, tranlslating directly to assembler can be the
best solution (price, time) in some cases. Some Ada compilers can
output assembler, so you can wrap the procedures in ASM statements
and send the fresh new C code in time.
The main difficulty people find in the exercise is the name visibility.
Even with a C++ compiler, with working namespaces it seems very
difficult to transform the easy unambiguous name visibility into
a pre-Pascalian context.

Good luck


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