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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Ada -> C or C++ translator
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David Rasmussen <pinkfloydhomer@yahoo.com> writes:

> I know that some Ada features don't have portable counterparts in C or 
> C++ (like concurrency), but does some sort of translator exist from Ada 
> to C or C++? It could use C or C++ as an Intermediate Representation 
> language similar to what the Comeau C/C++ compiler does. This way, one 
> could do the development with Ada and have all the advantages of Ada, 
> and end up with hopefully more correct code, and then for the release, 
> one could translate to C or C++ and use some of the very effecient 
> compilers for these languages. I realize that the support of some parts 
> of Ada's runtime system (like exceptions) wont be intact, but for 
> projects where this isn't important, such a translator could still be 
> useful.
> 
> Does such a translator exist?
> 
> /David

The AverCom (was AverStar, was Intermetrics) AdaMagic compiler can
generate C code.  (It also generates machine code on various targets.)

It supports the full language, including exceptions, tasking, etc (but
not the optional annexes).  (It's not *easy* to translate Ada's
exceptions into C, but it is possible.)

E-mail to Tucker Taft (stt@avercom.net) if you are interested.

- Bob