From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e552d8828cec1fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is it possible to translate ada program to C using GCC or other tools? References: <334c1c0a-0c49-49d3-b03b-867c2288159c@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <334c1c0a-0c49-49d3-b03b-867c2288159c@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1216772131 12.201.97.213 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:15:31 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:15:31 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:15:31 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6994 Date: 2008-07-23T00:15:31+00:00 List-Id: climber.cui@gmail.com wrote: > > I would like to investigate on how ada's protected object and > tasking features are implemented with C/pthread. Is it possible to use > gcc(or other tools) to do the translation? What makes you think these features are implemented in C? gcc will not translate Ada to C. SofCheck has a compiler that uses ANSI C as its intermediate language, but I suspect what you're interested in is part of their runtime code, not the code produced by the compiler. -- Jeff Carter "It's symbolic of his struggle against reality." Monty Python's Life of Brian 78