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From: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: converting "classic c" to "ansi c"
Message-ID: <11956@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 6 Mar 89 17:03:06 GMT
References: <173@ziggy.UUCP>
Reply-To: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <173@ziggy.UUCP> scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale) writes:
>first, the background...
>
>at work, we're developing a hunk of code for a piece of telecommunications
>test gear in C.
>the question...
>has anyone come across or written a set of utilities to perform the above
>translations?

Microsoft C 5.0 for the PC has a utility which will generate
function prototypes.  I have it, but have not used it.
MSC can be had for $300 or so...

>as to variable declarations, it would be nice to have the thing insert
>proper casts in the code where necessary to prevent the compiler from
>bitching...

How portable is the original code?  If it used to work does it
need fixing?

>we also have the additional requirement that any initialized structures
>or variables have the 'const' modifier, since we intend to squirt them
>directly into ROM.  of course, the 'extern' version of these would also
>carry the 'const.'

Handy, but I doubt that const stuff will get put into ROM automatically.
Typically you have to do some linker magic anyway...

	Stephen Uitti, suitti@ima.ima.isc.com