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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada to C translator
Date: 1997/03/28
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Tom Moran said

<<Has anyone tried compiling Ada to machine code then decompiling to C>>

This would definitely not get you far, not only would the C be completely
junky (with a lot of names, and all comments lost), but also it would
tend to be highly target specific. You can only tell something is an
8-bit quantity at that level, you can't tell it was a char.