From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ada -> C translator
Date: 1997/04/03
Date: 1997-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.860115718@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E833ux.337@world.std.com
Bob Duff said
<<First, what do you want:
1. Do you want it to handle the entire Ada language correctly?
2. Do you want it to produce C that is understandable to humans (e.g. C
programmers)? (I.e. do you want a compiler that happens to produce C,
and you'll maintain the Ada code, or do you want to throw away the Ada
code, and maintain the C code?)
3. Do you want the C code to be efficient?
>>
To this you should add a fourth question:
4. Do you want the C code to be portable?
If you get into the business of generating very low level C code, then
it may well be highly target dependent (e.g. have made decisions about
representation of primitive data items).
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-03 0:00 ada -> C translator Gabriel Monaton
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` William Clodius
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09 0:00 ` William Clodius
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` William Clodius
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
[not found] ` <lvlo6iwws8.fsf@sulu.fl.ensco.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
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