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: 103376,9d929352a358ccab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada to C++ translator References: <1138132539.577082.206380@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:53:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.212.188 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1138164786 67.3.212.188 (Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:53:06 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:53:06 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2621 Date: 2006-01-25T04:53:06+00:00 List-Id: David Emery wrote: > That's not true. There's no 1-1 translation, bu a POSIX-based runtime > certainly can show how to translate Ada tasking to a sequence of C/POSIX > primitives (Mutexes, Semaphores, etc). It's certainly non-trivial, but > it can be done. That's a translator to C++ + POSIX, not a translator to C++. One could write a tasking runtime in C++ and translate Ada tasking to calls to it, but then one is getting into the area of writing an Ada compiler that uses C++ as an intermediate language. -- Jeff Carter "My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought, careening through a cosmic vapor of invention." Blazing Saddles 85