Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
>> Le Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:42:18 +0200, Stephen Leake
>> <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> a écrit:
>>> Yes, that's a non-starter.
>>>
>>> Be sure to mention GNAT's -fdump-ada-spec, which generates Ada package
>>> specs from C code. That makes it _much_ easier to import C correctly.
>>
>> Is it a standard GCC option or does it requires a patched GCC ? I have
>> built GCC and GNAT for a cross compiler some time ago, and do not
>> remember  there was such an option in the configuration choices. This
>> may suggest  “standard option”, but on the other hand, I cannot
>> suppose this is a  standard GCC option as it is Ada related and GNAT
>> specific.
>>
>> Thanks to have mentioned this.
>
> It is a non-standard option insofar as it is not defined in the standard
> (ARM).
>
> AFAICT, this feature is present in GCC >= 4.5 and in GNAT GPL Edition >=
> 2010.

Not in 4.5.0.