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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ada -> C translator
Date: 1997/04/03
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Date: 1997-04-03T00:00:00+00:00
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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).