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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter
Date: 1997/04/02
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Date: 1997-04-02T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.859987799@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>One thing that would complicate this particular project substantially is
>the testing. Since the idea is to get something that works on all C compilers
>on all machines, reasonably thorough testing means playing on lots of
>different machines, which always adds a lot of effort.

I suspect you'd spend most of your time working around bugs and
limitations in various C compilers, given that the output of this tool
would be C written in an "unusual" style, and thus not well exercised in
C compilers.

- Bob