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On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 2:18:11 AM UTC-7, kalvi...@gmail.com wrote:
> lauantai, 2. kes=E4kuuta 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:
> >=20
> > > Eiffel also generates C; there is a GPL edition of
> > > the compiler. Don't know whether it is suitable
> > > for =B5Controllers, though.
> >=20
> > SmartEiffel
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartEiffel
> > http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/
> >=20
> > Could be used for ideas on creating a subset Ada to C "compiler".
>=20
> Good pointer, thanks!
>=20
> Actually, there have been quite a few good suggestions on how to create a=
n translator.
>=20
> As Niklas Holsti suggested sometime above, the translation from GNAT IR t=
o C might be the easiest way. I thought about this, and as there exists a G=
NAT 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?
>=20

  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 e=
quivalent C to see if this is a viable option forward. At the very least yo=
u will learn more about GNAT.