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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada to C translator
Date: 1997/02/09
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Date: 1997-02-09T00:00:00+00:00
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John Walker said

<<There's also:
2a. You want to use C as an intermediate language to be compiled for a
platform that doesn't currently have an Ada compiler targeted to it.
(All maintenance, etc., would be done on the original Ada.)
>>

First, there are not many such targets these days, given GNAT being
around. 

Second, it is probably easier to do a port of GCC to a new machine in
this case than mess with a C translation. Remember that if you decide
to use C, you are committing yourself to a significantly inefficient
translation (for things like nested procedures, overflow checking,
exception handling), so to compete with this you don't need a super
high quality GCC/GNAT port, just something that works.