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From: abl@cernvax.UUCP (alastair bland)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Looking for a Modula2 to C Compiler ...
Message-ID: <1125@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 15:39:30 GMT
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Reply-To: abl@cernvax.UUCP (alastair bland)
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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I have found the following paper:

MOD2: A PRE-PROCESSOR FOR THE MODULA-2 LANGUAGE FOR C COMPILERS

by J. Crawford and F.P. Crawford,

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation,
Lucas Heights Research Laboratories,
December 1987.

It describes a Modula-2 to C  translator  which  was  made  for  BSD  Unix
Pyramid  systems.  They  called  the  main programs involved m2c and mod2.
The modula-2 front end was based  on  Wirth's  original  4  pass  modula-2
compiler for the Lilith computer.

The object as I understand it was to make  a  portable  modula-2  compiler
(with output in C) rather than pass your modula-2 code through it once and
then say bye bye to modula-2.  I am wanting to do the latter!

I would like to know the mail address of these people  and  opinions  from
anybody  who  has  used  the product on whether it produces maintainable C
code as output, with the modula-2 comments left in etc.  I do not mind too
much  if it makes a few mistakes as I am intending to make improvements to
the code anyway.

Thanks for any responses except flames!

Alastair Bland, abl@cernvax.cern.CH