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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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!newshub.sdsu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news.utah.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu (Bobby D. Bryant) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada to C++ translator Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:18:52 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis- Message-ID: References: <1138132539.577082.206380@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87zmlkoz4k.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Reply-To: bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-a-128-83-253-158.telesys.its.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 1138238332 17545 128.83.253.158 (26 Jan 2006 01:18:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:18:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2639 Date: 2006-01-26T01:18:52+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, 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. Is any of that a reason to re-architect working code? -- Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas