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On 01/24/2011 05:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I'm wondering if there are any generic sorts of code translation |
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> tools in portage wherein I could translate from an 'uncommon' language |
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> no one here is likely to use (EasyLanguage) into C? |
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> As an example I've attached a little EL function that takes |
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> buy/sell command data an puts it away in an array for safe keeping. |
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> What tools are out there, if any, that might allow me to describe how |
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> EL works and then the tool does the conversion? |
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Since no one else has given you the bad news, this is basically |
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impossible if you care that the two programs behave the same. |
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For any particular program, the best you can do is rewrite it by hand |
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after creating a battery of unit tests. The alternative is to compile |
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your source language to a common low-level language, and then decompile |
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back to your target language. |
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Unfortunately, unless your common low-level language is some sort of |
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bytecode with additional metadata (you can translate between .NET |
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languages for example), the output from the decompiler is going to look |
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like garbage. |
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