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  • * Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ?
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    @ 1996-02-17  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
      1996-02-22  0:00     ` Tore Joergensen
      2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
    From: Robert Dewar @ 1996-02-17  0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
    
    
    Rusty says
    
    "Why don't you use the gnat (Ada 95) compiler.  It is a front end to the
    gcc compiler.  Perhaps there is a switch to generate C code??"
    
    And perhaps there is not, there is also no switch to generate Fortran,
    Algol or natural language Chinese (none of which are any less likely
    than C, given that in no sense does GNAT translate into C :-)
    
    
    
    
    
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  • * Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ?
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      1996-02-17  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
    @ 1996-02-22  0:00     ` Tore Joergensen
      2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
    From: Tore Joergensen @ 1996-02-22  0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
    
    
    Rusty Baldwin (rbaldwin@nvi.nvi.net) wrote:
    : Thomas G. McWilliams wrote:
    : > There exists a good Pascal to C translator called p2c available
    : > in source code form (I think it might be GNU software). It might
    : > serve as a rough basis on which to build something like this.
    : > Perhaps you could run your Ada code through some Perl filters
    : > and post-process with p2c. Very hackish, I know. Maybe a Modula
    : > to C translator could be hacked more easily.
    : Why don't you use the gnat (Ada 95) compiler.  It is a front end to the
    : gcc compiler.  Perhaps there is a switch to generate C code??
    
    C and C++ are two other front ends to the gcc compiler. I'm quite sure
    that there isn't any switch for converting code between different 
    front ends (wouldn't that be nice; C to C++ and Ada95 converter). BTW,
    there are several other front ends too.
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  • * Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ?
    @ 1996-02-20  0:00 Simon Johnston
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    From: Simon Johnston @ 1996-02-20  0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
    
    
    > T.E.D. says
    >
    > "I feel the momentum for changing Gnat's name building..."
    >
    > Well, we don't :-) We have no intention of changing the name.
    >
    > And in any case, to think that a mere name change will prevent people
    > having misconceptions is, I am afraid, unrealistic :-)
    >
    > Also, we prefer to still capitalize it as GNAT :-)
    >
    > We discussed having a competition to determine the best after the fact
    > acronym for GNAT (so far we are rather partial to the "Great New Ada
    > Technology" suggestion :-)
    
    I like GNAT, it is simple, easy to remember and *doesn't* need to mean
    anything! (if it did have to then this latest suggestion is fine by me). If
    this thing come to a vote I will have to side with the keep GNAT campaign.
    
    
    with StandardDisclaimer; use StandardDisclaimer;
    package Sig is
    --,-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
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    --|-----------------------------------------------------|3/4 Willoughby Road|
    --|Unix Mail: skj@acm.org                               |Bracknell          |
    --|Telephone: +44 (0)1344 476320 Fax: +44 (0)1344 476302|Berkshire          |
    --|Internal : 7261 6320   OP Mail: S.K.Johnston@BRA0801 |RG12 8TJ           |
    --|WWW URL  : http://www.acm.org/~skj/                  |United Kingdom     |
    --`-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
    end Sig;
    
    
    
    
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