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- From: jeff@ryhope.del.dec.com (Jeff Finkelstein)
- Subject: Re: C to Ada conversion
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.190500.21281@decuac.dec.com>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:05:00 GMT
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- In article <l6mim9INNs5g@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> menges@Eng.Sun.COM writes:
- >
- >Can anyone recommend a shop or consultants that convert C code to Ada?
- >
- >The package is about 35-40K (LOC) C code and is highly graphics oriented. I
- >believe that it runs on PCs.
- >
-
- I can't recommend anyone, but I'm in the process of going through it
- also. I have a program that is ~18K LOC of C and need to convert it to
- Ada. Much of it is fairly straight forward until you get into some of
- the quirks (read: features) of C, i.e. pointer arithmetic and casting.
-
- Bottom line is it depends on how well written (and documented) the C
- code is. I originally estimated that my conversion would take 6-9 months
- and it looks more like 9-12 months. One thing I have discovered is that
- as I go through the process I become more and more of an Ada fan. I am
- find many bugs in the original code that Ada will not let me get away
- with.
-
- My $0.02.
-
- jeff
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