Re: Ada to C translator for small microcontrollers

[Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>]

On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 2:18:11 AM UTC-7, kalvi...@gmail.com wrote:
> lauantai, 2. kesäkuuta 2012 18.27.06 UTC+3 Marco kirjoitti:
> > On Monday, May 21, 2012 5:27:07 AM UTC-7, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> > > On 21.05.12 12:35, kalvin wrote:
> > 
> > > Eiffel also generates C; there is a GPL edition of
> > > the compiler. Don't know whether it is suitable
> > > for µControllers, though.
> > 
> > SmartEiffel
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartEiffel
> > http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/
> > 
> > Could be used for ideas on creating a subset Ada to C "compiler".
> 
> Good pointer, thanks!
> 
> Actually, there have been quite a few good suggestions on how to create an translator.
> 
> As Niklas Holsti suggested sometime above, the translation from GNAT IR to C might be the easiest way. I thought about this, and as there exists a GNAT Ada Pretty Printer, and if I have understood it correctly, it uses GNAT IR for recreating the source code. This might be the easiest way to create the translator, as rewriting the source code formatting rules to produce C source instead. Any comments on this possible approach?
> 

  Create a small Ada program with some short procedures and functions (skip tasks and IO) and try to "hack up" the GNAT Ada Pretty Printer to output equivalent C to see if this is a viable option forward. At the very least you will learn more about GNAT.