From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org>
To: frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning)
Subject: Re: Ada to C/C++ translator needed
Date: 1996/10/06
Date: 1996-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qw6iv8o9yig.fsf@gargantua.enst.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 536eid$gv2@news.ccit.arizona.edu
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Manning <frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu> writes:
Frank> Awhile back there was a big discussion about the merits of
Frank> writing an 8051 Ada compiler. I'm a bit surprised nobody
Frank> mentioned this possibility, since 8051 C compilers already
Frank> exist.
You've hit another interesting point: is there a study on how hard
(man*year) it is to write machine-specifics files for GCC ? I've never
had to write some since all the targets I use are supported already,
but it doesn't seem to be an unreasonable task at all. Once these
files are written, you get a cross-compiler for C, C++, Obj-C,
Fortran, Modula and Ada (not including the runtimes which are highly
machine dependents, but if you use an Ada to C translator, you will
have to write the tasking library to be called from C anyway, so it
shouldn't be a more complicated job to port the Ada runtime itself).
Sam
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Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-25 0:00 Ada to C/C++ translator needed Emmanuel Champommier
1996-09-25 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-10-02 0:00 ` B|rje Norden
1996-10-04 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu [this message]
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Erik Magnuson
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] ` <52feul$os2@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Tanmoy Bhattacharya
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Tanmoy Bhattacharya
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-02 0:00 Simon Johnston
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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