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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,c0f035b936128b6c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c0f035b936128b6c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kst@sd.aonix.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter Date: 1997/04/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 230736724 Sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pulsar References: <5htg0a$v8v$1@news.nyu.edu> Organization: Aonix, San Diego, CA, USA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Originator: kst@pulsar Date: 1997-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes: > In article , Robert Dewar 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. Which suggests that this could be an interesting way to generate nasty test cases for C compilers. I wonder how hard it would be to do the same kind of thing for Ada compilers. (I *like* nasty test cases.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@sd.aonix.com <*> TeleSo^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsy^H^H^H^H Thomson Softw^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Aonix 5040 Shoreham Place, San Diego, CA, USA, 92122-5989 "Humor is such a subjective thing." -- Cartagia