Pascal to C converter

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Ziem picture Ziem · Apr 29, 2012 · Viewed 14.5k times · Source

I'm writing program which translate Pascal to C and need some help. I started with scanner generator Flex. I defined some rules and created scanner which is working more or less ok. It breaks Pascal syntax into tokens, for now it's only printing what it found. But I have no idea what should I do next. Are there any articles or books covering this subject? What is the next step?

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NPE picture NPE · Apr 29, 2012

You might want to take a look at "Translating Between Programming Languages Using A Canonical Representation And Attribute Grammar Inversion" and references therein.

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