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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter
Date: 1997/03/28
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In article <5heoel$bc0$1@gail.ripco.com> xanadu@ripco.com (Jennifer E. Lee) writes:

> In article <dewar.859432540@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> >Nick says
> >
> ><<Essentially, this is a task which should be quite feasible, as long as a
> >moderately pragmatic approach is taken (IMHO!).>>
> >
> >Only if you restrict the Ada 95 to a very small subset. There are many
> >features in Ada 95 that will cause significant trouble in converting to
> >C (e.g. nested procedures, dynamic aggregates, dynamic arrays, particularly
> >those in records, variant records, finalization, exceptions, packed arrays,
> >etc. etc.)
> >
> 
> So it is impossible for such thing like Ada to C converter being made.
> Is this what you are suggesting?

I think Robert is taking "conversion" to me "translate the Ada95 into
C which is then intended to be read and maintained by humans".  Using
this definition, then his points are relevant.  But, it seems from
what you've said a few times now, that you are really looking for a
"converter" which compiles Ada to C.  Using this definition I believe
Robert would say that, while there may be some issues, this is
certainly doable and may well have been done.  Doesn't ICC sell such a
thing?

/Jon

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