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- From: demailly@thomson-lcr.fr (Gilles Demailly)
- Subject: Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ?
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- To: Jean-Christophe Monfret <jcmon@rtusi.realtime-info.be>
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- Organization: Thomson-CSF, Laboratoire Central de Recherches, Orsay, France
- References: <4fn8bv$6d1@news.be.innet.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:25:51 GMT
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- In article <4fn8bv$6d1@news.be.innet.net>, Jean-Christophe Monfret <jcmon@rtusi.realtime-info.be> writes:
- |> Hello,
- |> First of all I have no opinion about what is the best between
- |> Ada and C for Real-Time systems.
- |>
- |> My problem is the following one :
- |> One of our clients has been developping a Real-Time System in
- |> ADA with VRTX on a MVME147 board. He would now like to make some
- |> improvements to his application but the VRTX32 with ADA is dead.
- |> Its choice would be to port the ADA application by using ARTK from
- |> Alsys, but even so there is quite a lot of work to be done (just for the
- |> porting). A translation to C could be a good solution (please no
- |> stupid comment on this) if a good ADA to C compiler exits ?
- |>
- |>
- |> Is it possible to use GNAT ? Is there any other translator that
- |> could be usefull in such a case ?
- |>
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- I do not think that translating Ada code to C is a better solution
- than porting to another Ada environment (ARTK) because you should do
- both porting and translating.
- GNAT is NOT an Ada to C translator, it is a compiler.
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- --Gilles
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