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From: johnd@Stardent.COM (John R. Dennis @stardent)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: fortran source code translation utility
Message-ID: <1990Feb12.234210.5541@Stardent.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 90 23:42:10 GMT
Organization: Stardent Computer, Newton MA
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Can anyone point us at a utility that would perform a modest amount of
automated text editing on fortran source. The intended application is changing
from an old API (Application Program Interface, e.g. library calling
semantics) to a new API. At a minimum we want to be able to replace one name
with another, optionally we would also like to be able to add or delete a
parameter or change its position in a parameter list, or translate a
hard-coded constant to a symbolic constant (parameter in fortran), etc.

Note that because of the difficulty of doing lexical analysis of fortran
source and identifing tokens this is not a simple string replacement operation
such as might be offered by awk or sed in UNIX. Such a utility must have
considerable smarts about the fortran language.

It seems to me that given fortran's long history this must be a common problem
that has had multiple solutions. Can you point us at some of those solutions,
hopefully in the public domain?


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