Re: Ada to Ada Translator ?

[foo wong <crap@spellingbeewinnars.org>]

Hi Edward

I am just starting out here and I am making errors. The goal here would be to distill down Ada into primitive Ada code, until it could be compiled by gnat without a runtime but it would still be text book Ada code.

I thought that nested subprograms would require the runtime and I don't think they do now, sorry.

Backporting sounds like a great idea. I would like to start around Ada83 and have it compile with gnat without any gnat runtime, the runtime would be created be the ada/ada preprocessor. I would like to target new platforms.

So I guess where I was going with the pragmas, is that I would like to be able to write Ada code that had tasking/exceptions etc but by the time it reached gnat, these pragmas could be used to avoid linking to any runtime from Adacore.

I figure that these pragmas also serve as a sort of to-do list.

You work with Astronomy... I only found out a couple of years ago that the universe has at least 100-200 billion galaxies. What a fascinating field of study. It must be very demanding. I am just a fan on the sidelines :)

-Pat
P.S also thanks to Optikos for the feedback link to AdaGoop and Randy for feedback that shows me that this is a very doable project.