giw@allegra.UUCP (Jerry Weil) (12/17/87)
Does anyone know of software to translate Pascal to C while maintaining
comments?
Any pointers to sources would be appreciated.
- Jerry Weil (allegra!giw)
[I hear that Whitesmith's Pascal compiler translates to C, then compiles
the C, but I've no direct experience of it. -John]
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Does anyone know of software for converting Pascal to C while maintaining
comments?
Any pointers to sources would be appreciated.
- Jerry Weil (allegra!giw)rsalz@BBN.COM (Rich Salz) (12/19/87)
There was a Pascal to C translator published in comp.sources.unix a
couple of months ago. Don't remember about the comments, tho.
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Whitesmiths has a Pascal to C translator, and if memory serves, it does
indeed preserve comments. However, it is commercial product. They have
versions of that translator that can target a "standard" U*ix C compiler,
or a Whitesmiths C compiler.
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"OS/2 -- Half an operating system"mccaugh@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu (12/27/87)
What? No description of the translation? Just curious as to what one should expect from such translation, as it proceeds from a totally block-structured (but not necessarily separate-compilable) language to a non-block-structured (but independently-compilable) language. My guess is that in going from P to C, internal routines must get their environment preserved -- presumably -- by "struct's", which carry externally-known identifiers inward; otherwise, I suspect much indirection on the part of globally-declared pointers playing the role of a 'display'. The only alternative would be much resort to para- meter passing, which overhead I suspect this translator seeks to avoid.