earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace ) (03/29/85)
I am posting this for John, please mail to him at pesnta!csusac!clevengr
-earlw
The Computer Science Department at California State University
in Sacramento has a newly-acquired P-E 3220 running Edition VII, and we are
looking for someone who can help us with a problem. Edition VII is
currently released with Version 1.0 of the Berkeley Pascal interpreter (pi).
pi seems to work for small programs, but (as documented by the Berkeley
authors) fails to handle very large ones.
We are interested in porting some large (>7000 line) programs
from other systems, and pi will not handle them even by changing the
declarations in the pi code related to the size of the program being
interpreted. Berkeley is up to Version 3.0 of pi, but their development
work is on a VAX. We took a shot at porting the V3.0 pi, but there seem
to be too many differences between Edition VII and the 4.2BSD system-type
stuff the new pi uses. Anyway, what we really need is a compiler, not an
interpreter.
Is there anyone who has any of the following running on a P-E
Unix machine ?
- a Pascal compiler (Berkeley pc generates VAX code; has anyone
implemented a P-E code generator?)
- the latest version of pi? or some other interpreter?
- any other method of handling large Pascal programs (e.g. a
Pascal-to-C translator)?
We know, we know, "write it in C in the first place". We would have
if we'd had C when the programs were written. We're hoping someone can
help us avoid the pain of manual translation....
Any help you can give us would be appreciated; we will respond in
kind in any way we're able.
Thanks,
John Clevenger
US Mail : Computer Science Department
California State University
Sacramento, California 95819
(916) 454-6834
machine addr:
...!pesnta!csusac!clevengr
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USMAIL: Perkin-Elmer Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. 95054dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) (03/30/85)
I second the call for a decent Pascal compiler. We'd like to
convert CAI which is being written by law schools across North America,
in Pascal on IBM-PC's, to run under Edition VII.
Dave Sherman
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