From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-18 09:36:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <2460735.u7KiuvdgQP@linux1.krischik.com> <54759e7e.0402081525.50c7adae@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:22:24 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1077124883 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:21:23 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:21:23 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5650 comp.lang.c:23136 Date: 2004-02-18T12:22:24-05:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > "Jerry Coffin" wrote in message > news:MPG.1a9555bd517ba66d989c91@news.clspco.adelphia.net... > >>In article , crmeiners@hotmail.com >>says... >> >>The bottom line is that an Ada to C translator could be useful under >>some circumstances, but in the situation that was being described, it's >>likely to be far more of a problem than a solution. > > This is a description of the C-path compiler solution used for other > languages, > most notably, Eiffel. I believe Tucker Taft's Ada compiler uses this > approach, > and Irvine Compiler Corporation used to do this, but I'm not sure if they > still > do. ... > Richard Riehle It would be useful to have such an Open Sourced version of the same (or a flavour of GNAT). It could then be used as a bootstrap compiler for GNAT on new platforms. You would of course have to do a lot of Ada runtime library support at the C level as well, but for a bootstrap compiler, this could be minimized I think. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk