Re: Automated conversion to C++?

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@acm.nospam.org>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> 
> I don't get it. Do you mean that C is a concurrent language?

I suspect that SofCheck has written a runtime that it makes calls to to support 
concurrency in the generated C code. But I don't really know, so you'll have to 
ask them.

> Note also that Jacob said nothing about concurrency of the original
> problem. If there is none, then objection about concurrency has no
> ground.

What objection? I said an Ada-to-C++ translator is impossible, unless you want 
to do what SofCheck has done and supply a portable runtime to support 
concurrency in the generated C++. What Jacob's needs are has no bearing on that. 
It may be that he's only using a subset of Ada, and so only really needs a 
translator for that subset, but that's not what he asked about.

> Note also that Jacob didn't say a word about the target platform. This
> target platform might support concurrency, which can be available from
> C++ (hint: any mainstream operating system is fine here).

Really? I'd like to know how to translate Ada tasking into portable C++ that 
will run on "any mainstream operating system".

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Now look, Col. Batguano, if that really is your name."
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