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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> 
> It is good enough with POSIX dependent C++ code.  And I don't plan to
> do anything which depends critically on the more detailed requirements
> on Ada tasking (a "pthreads" based solution is likely to be good
> enough).

Then you don't really want an Ada-to-C++ translator, but an Ada-to-C++-and-Posix 
translator. That's a different, simpler, and possible creature.

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Jeff Carter
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