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P2c is a tool for translating Pascal programs into C. The input
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consists of a set of source files in any of the following Pascal
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dialects: HP Pascal, Turbo/UCSD Pascal, DEC VAX Pascal, Oregon
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Software Pascal/2, Macintosh Programmer's Workshop Pascal,
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Sun/Berkeley Pascal, Texas Instruments Pascal, Apollo Domain Pascal.
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Modula-2 syntax is also supported. Output is a set of .c and .h files
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that comprise an equivalent program in any of several dialects of
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C. Output code may be kept machine- and dialectindependent, or it may
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be targeted to a specific machine and compiler. Most reasonable Pascal
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programs are converted into fully functional C which will compile and
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run with no further modifications, although p2c sometimes chooses to
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generate readable code at the expense of absolute generality. P2c
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endeavors to insert notes and warning messages into the output code to
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point out areas which may require human intervention. Output code is
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arranged to be readable and efficient, and to make use of C idioms
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wherever possible. The main goal of the translation is to produce C
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files which are pleasant and "natural" enough to be acceptable as the
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new source files for a program. In a pinch, p2c will also serve as an
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ad hoc Pascal compiler. The p2cc script makes it easy to use p2c as a
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compiler.
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