Ann: P2Ada (v.22-Dec-2002)

["Gautier direct_replies_not_read" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>]

Hello. Recently G. A. Craig Carey (mostly) and I reworked P2Ada, a
command-line Pascal to Ada translator.

P2Ada is now able to translate large sources. Depending on
the sources, the pre-work needed to have a successful translation and
the rework after translation have been significantly reduced.

URL: http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm#p2ada

Two recent "success stories":
  - porting of MAS (Modula-2 Algebra System, 73 kSlocs)
      by using Mod2P and P2Ada
  - porting of the Numerical Recipes in Pascal.

Bugs fixed: a lot!

Some of the new features:

- Support for Sqr, Odd, Eof, Eoln, Read, ReadLn, Ord, Chr (standard Pascal)
     and type Double
- For Borland integers, a transitional package is provided.
- Turbo Pascal 7's CONST parameters translated.
- Set expressions better translated (in form of array of Boolean).
- A procedure Dispose is created for each access type.
- For variables of a structured type, P2Ada creates an ad-hoc type for them.
- Option to translate a "var" parameter by "var" instead
     of "in out": it is wrong but caught by the Ada compiler for the rework.
- Name of procedures and functions put after "end".
- Smarter recognition of variables (array elements, record fields,...)
- Bigger buffers for translating large sources.
- Added casing of Ada keywords (upper/lower/neutral).

Enjoy!
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Gautier  --  http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm

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