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From: "Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>
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I suspect you are going to have to add ugly prefixes to all of the members
of the enums.

(e.g
  typedef enum { mtYt_MyType, mtYt_YourType} myTypeYourType;
 )

or something similar.

You will run into similar problems all over the place with overloaded
procedures and even
procedures of the same name in different packages since the C namespace is
global and .h files
are nothing like Ada specs.


There are (commercial/proprietary) tools that can translate from Ada to C.
While they may not do
a perfect job it might be a good starting point.

Even doing a hand translation, you are likely to have some issues since the
code will end up
being structures with an Ada bias which C programmers who work on your code
in the future
will not like.

For instance, it is likely that you may end up with descriptive variable
names and
well structured code.. C programmers hate that :)  (Flames to personal
e-mail only..)

"MPowell" <mpowell_jr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2a159604.0304120643.39f77838@posting.google.com...
> Perhaps I'm in the wrong forum but I doing some translation from Ada
> to C.
> I've noticed in Ada you can do things like.
>
>   type MYTYPE_YOURTYPE      is (MyType,                         -- 0
>                                 YourType);                       -- 1
>
>   type YOURTYPE_MYTYPE     is (YourType,                       -- 0
>                                 MyType);                        -- 1
>
>
>
>
>   typedef enum { MyType,
>                  YourType } MYTYPE_YOURTYPE ;
>
>
> Obviously if I typedef on YOURTYPE_MYTYPE the compiler complains so
> I'm not sure how to handle this?