[antlr-interest] Re: (in)sanity check

[lgcraymer]

Well, yes and no.  Johannes Martin used to have a web-interfaced version of the translator.  400 KLOC of data (even if you have to 
work out NDA details) may be of interest to him, anyway, and he might be receptive to a consulting contract (it never hurts to ask).  I 
haven't dealt with him directly, so this is more a case of "ask the author:  it is probably possible to get his help".

--Loring


--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "ljw10001" <ljw1001 at h...> wrote:
> I looked at Ephedra, but apparently it requires a VisualAge C++ 
> compiler that runs only on AIX.  If it worked, it might be worth the 
> expense of buying an AIX machine but I have no way to evaluate it. 
> 
> --- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "lgcraymer" <lgc at m...> wrote:
> > Check out
> > http://ovid.tigris.org/Ephedra/
> > 
> > --Loring
> > 
> > 
> > --- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "ljw10001" <ljw1001 at h...> 
> wrote:
> > > I'm about to begin a project to port 400K LOC of C++ code to 
> Java.  
> > > To the greatest extent possible, we want to do a line by line 
> port 
> > > and, if possible I would like to automate some part of that 
> effort.
> > > 
> > > What I have in mind is to use ANTLR/Sorcerer to do a rough 
> > > translation.  
> > > 
> > > If I'm reading the various documents, articles, etc. correctly, 
> there 
> > > is a C++ grammar available that ANTLR can use to create a parse 
> tree 
> > > and also a Sorcerer description for Java that can read a 
> (different) 
> > > parse tree and generate java code. Presumably the first tree 
> could be 
> > > mapped to the second, or we could modify the Sorcerer description 
> by 
> > > hand to use the tree generated from the C++ source.
> > > 
> > > I'm not expecting the result to compile. In fact I would be happy 
> to 
> > > output C++ with some of the code selectively replaced by Java 
> > > equivalents.  Anything that would reduce the amount of manual  
> > > translation noticably would be useful.  
> > > 
> > > So, am I completely insane to attempt this with ANTLR?  
> Suggestions 
> > > for better ways to approach the problem would be greatly 
> appreciated.



 
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