Re: Is it possible to translate ada program to C using GCC or other

On Jul 22, 8:15 pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
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> wrote:
> climber....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
> >   I would like to investigate on how ada's protected object  and
> > tasking features are implemented with C/pthread. Is it possible to use
> > gcc(or other tools) to do the translation?
>
> What makes you think these features are implemented in C?
>
> gcc will not translate Ada to C.
>
> SofCheck has a compiler that uses ANSI C as its intermediate language,
but I
> suspect what you're interested in is part of their runtime code, not the
code
> produced by the compiler.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "It's symbolic of his struggle against reality."
> Monty Python's Life of Brian
> 78

yes, you are right. It is the Gnat runtime code that implements the
concurrent features. But I first want to see what runtime calls is
made for certain ADA constructs. When i try to read gcc source code, i
got lost at the beginning.