Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

Yes, one of the things I did when I was working at UMass was to convert some
FORTRAN code to C and yes, automated tool commonly did either a poor job or
created code that was not maintainable or readable.  (And some of the code
needed to be made multi-threaded for parallelization.)

At 1 Apr 2025 17:35:11 GMT rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

 
On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 14:40:27 -0000 (UTC), Robert Heller wrote:
 

It should be noted that GnuCOBOL actually translates COBOL to C, and
then compiles the C code with GnuC.  In *theory* one could just run the
whole code base through GnuCOBOL and create a C code base, but good luck
making much sense of the generated C code...

 
I never did it with COBOL but I did use 'f2c' to generate C code from
Fortran. When I saw the results I wrote the C code manually. It probably
would have compiled and ran but it was not maintainable. I've seen more
readable output from disassemblers.
                                                                                                           
 

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