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"Dennis Ritchie" <dmr@bell-labs.com>
15 Jul 2003 23:50:57 -0400

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From: "Dennis Ritchie" <dmr@bell-labs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 Jul 2003 23:50:57 -0400
Organization: Lucent Technologies
References: 03-07-042 03-07-070
Keywords: analysis
Posted-Date: 15 Jul 2003 23:50:57 EDT

"Allen McIntosh" <mcintosh@mc-pc.research.telcordia.com> wrote
> Dana Freer <dana.subscriptions@virgin.net> wrote:
> >I am not a compiler writer but have the task of writing a tranlslator to
> >convert from a language which allows GOTO, GOSUB, RETURN into a language
> >(like VbScript) which does not alllow GOTO etc. Is this impossible? Will
> >human intervention always be required?


> You should try to see if Brenda Baker ever wrote up "struct". It was
> a program that converted Fortran into Ratfor. (Better yet, send her
> e-mail.) My guess is that you can do what you want unless the
> flowgraph is irreducible.
> [I'm pretty sure I've read a BTL tech report. It was quite impressive]


I tried to find a local CSTR or other machine-readable paper, without
success. Brenda does list these publications:


B.S. Baker, An Algorithm for Structuring Flowgraphs, J. ACM 24,1 , January, 1977, pp. 98--120.


B.S. Baker, An Algorithm for Structuring Programs: Extended Abstract, Proc. 3rd ACM Symposium
on Principles of Programming Languages, January 1976, pp. 98-120.


(I'm suspicious of the identical page numbers...)


Her struct tool was distributed with 7th Edition Unix, but wasn't maintained.


        Dennis


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