From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9d929352a358ccab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.volia.net!news.germany.com!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!carbon.eu.sun.com!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada to C++ translator Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <1138132539.577082.206380@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87zmlkoz4k.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: host86-142-141-218.range86-142.btcentralplus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com 1138221416 17603 86.142.141.218 (25 Jan 2006 20:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:36:56 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87zmlkoz4k.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2631 Date: 2006-01-25T20:36:56+00:00 List-Id: Florian Weimer wrote: > * Bobby D. Bryant: > > >>>I am looking for an Ada to C++ translator. The converter will only be >>>used as an intermediate step and not used on sections of code we will >>>be re-architecting to make use of C++ functionality. >> >>What is "C++ functionality"? > > > Implicit instantiation of templates, for example. Low-overhead > destructors, parameterized exceptions and multiple inheritance come to > my mind, too. And there is wild pointer arithmetic, of course. What's "high-overhead" about Ada finalization? -- Martin