Re: Pascal program file parameter to Ada translation (Was: Re: Is GPC dead?)

Leo:

> 1) don't include *any* file variables in the Program name,

> Whoops, a minor typo, that short pascal file should have been
> program shell;
> var
>    afile: text;
> begin
>    Create(afile,out_file,"foo.txt");
>    writeln(afile, 'shell output');
> end.
> Notice the second argument to Create: out_file. Ada is very picky, you
> have to tell it that you want to write to the file "foo.txt".
> If you want to read from a file use
> Open (afile,in_file,"bah.txt");
> rather than reset(afile,"bah.txt")

Got it.

That was enough for me to build a horribly slow preprocessor that
fixes the code before translation.

Seems to me that should be part of p2ada. 

I see the next major problem is 'anonymous arrays not allowed as
components' but a little googling showed how to fix that.

Seems like the road to convert to ada is open but with so many
programs it is likely a big job.

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research
  RNA Biology Laboratory
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
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