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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada to C translator for small microcontrollers
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 02:18:11 -0700, kalvin.news wrote:

> 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?

For the C back-end, it might be worth looking at an old version of f2c, 
(from before it became g77 or gfortran) to see how some other-language 
constructs were translated into c. It's probably not pretty, but I 
remember it as being a fairly small program.

- Brian