Re: rendez-vous underlying mechanism

[tgingold@pc204.ipricot.fr]

In article <3ca03f16$1_2@news.tm.net.my>, Adrian Hoe wrote:
> Simon Wright wrote:
>> 
>> Adrian Hoe <mailbox@*nospam*adrianhoe.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Why C? Ada allows you to define tasks explicitly compare to C. GNAT
>> > is actually "translating" Ada to C. So, you can use GNAT to generate
>> > C code and then examine it. I can't actually remember how to have
>> > the C translation. I had it once some time ago after an incomplete
>> > installation of GNAT. :)
>> 
>> Very mysterious, GNAT has never translated to C. You can see the
>> _assembler_ output using -S (like most? all? GCC compilers).
>> 
>> If you are using GNAT, why not look at the RTS source? (mostly in Ada).
> 
> 
> Strange. I got a C file somehow produced by GNAT which I did not
> properly installed. It was 3.10 if I remember correctly. At that time I
> was just trying to compile a simple "Hello World" program. My memory
> could serve me wrong but I am damned sure I got a C source file in my
> test directory which contained only an .adb file.
That was certainly the C file generated by the binder.
The current version of GNAT generates an Ada file by default.

Tristan.