carmi@ipla01.hac.com (Aviram Carmi) (01/30/91)
I need to convert a large Ada program into C. Any pointers to a program which will help me do this will be greatly appreciated. Also, if anyone did such a conversion manually, I will appreciate any hints, suggestions, etc. I will summarize any EMail replies to the net. Thank You, Avi Carmi EMail: carmi@ipla01.hac.com Phone: (818) 702-3179 -- Avi Carmi (carmi@ipla01.hac.com)
macrakis@gr.osf.org (Stavros Macrakis) (01/30/91)
In article <13063@hacgate.UUCP> carmi@ipla01.hac.com (Aviram Carmi) writes:
I need to convert a large Ada program into C. Any pointers to a
program which will help me do this will be greatly appreciated.
Also, if anyone did such a conversion manually, I will appreciate
any hints, suggestions, etc.
I believe that the original version of Meridian's Ada compiler used C
as an intermediate language. I do not know if this is still true, but
you can contact them.
Since Ada's semantics are well-defined, and since C acts somewhat like
a portable assembler, you should be able to get code that runs
correctly out of such a translator.
But I do hope that you're not planning to maintain/enhance/modify the
resulting C code! It would be something like trying to maintain the
output of a compiler as a program.... You will have lost most of the
structure of the original (packages, types, etc.).
-s
Stavros Macrakis
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