[antlr-interest] Translating PASCAL (or C) into JAVA

Robert renyedi at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 14 06:22:25 PST 2002


Hi

It is possible to translate Pascal or C into Java, but not for the whole
language. There is a 80-90% part of the language that should be translated
relatively straightforward.

However, when it comes about pointers and pointer related constructs
problems arise (this is especially a problem in case of C). And let's not
forget about the source language's libraries for which you may not have the
source code and you should make an emulation. This is the hard part.

Robert

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Subject: [antlr-interest] Translating PASCAL (or C) into JAVA


> Hello all,
>
> I'm new to the mailing list and I'm 'playing' with ANTLR since a few
> days. The ideas behind ANTLR are magnificant and I find it a very
> intelligent system, a real contribution to Computer Science.
>
> Now I have a simple question.
>
> I must find a system to translate Pascal files into JAVA. (can be C
> into JAVA aswell)
> Can that be done with ANTLR?
> Is there a quick solution to do that (perhaps starting from the
> Pascal example?)
>
> I have testet the Pascal grammer (antlr-2.7.1\java\examples\pascal)
> and the GNU C parser from the website.
>
> ANTLR produces me the JAVA-files PascalLexer.java PascalParser.java
> and PascalTokenTypes.java
> and I can build these together and test it with the example P_0_1.pas
> I also tested it with the grammer from Sinan (message 2398 Re: Ter,
> Would you mind looking at ....) which builds me an AST.
>
> My problem is that I want to translate this P_0_1.pas into JAVA code!
>
> Is that possible?
>
> I also searched in the FAQ and the Messages list and read a lot of
> discussions, but none of them goes into translating source-code into
> JAVA. And I searched in the ANTLR Reference Manual, which is detailed
> AND interesting, but I first have to know if my PASCAL to JAVA
> translation is possible and how.
> If so, I'm sure I will become a dedicated ANTLR-user.
>
> Thank you in advance to help this newcomer.
> Piet Schoutteten
>
>
>
>
>
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