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From: pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (A.R. Pruss)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: How do I convert from real (ANSI) C to Sun C?
Summary: Need a preprocessor to change prototypes to explicity type casts.
Keywords: ANSI C SUN CAST PROTOTYPES
Message-ID: <747@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 3 Aug 90 14:20:16 GMT
Organization: Applied Mathematics, "University" of Western Ontario, London
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I have a large piece of ANSI C code on my hands which runs on real C compilers
and on Microsoft C (i.e. compilers which have at least the ANSI prototype
support), but I now need to get the code compiling on a Sun with Sun's
prototype-less compiler.  Anyways, since the code makes a number of implicit
type conversions, I need a utility that would go thru the code and the
prototypes and produce explicit type-casts for all of the function arguments.
Is there such a beast?  Awk, gawk, etc., scripts are welcome, as are yacc/lex
or C programs.

Thank you most kindly in advance.  If you help me, I will change the
volume name on my PC's drive to your email address--or build a shrine
to you--or light 100 candles in the Cathedral.  :-)

Alex Pruss
pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca  //  Assistant network manager, apmaths1.uwo.ca.