Re: Translating from language which allows Goto's

mcintosh@mc-pc.research.telcordia.com (Allen McIntosh)
13 Jul 2003 23:49:11 -0400

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From: mcintosh@mc-pc.research.telcordia.com (Allen McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Jul 2003 23:49:11 -0400
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References: 03-07-042
Keywords: translator
Posted-Date: 13 Jul 2003 23:49:10 EDT

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?
>
>Any help/advice will be very much appreciated. Thanks.


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.
-John]


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