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C source viewer/mapper?

John Thingstad john.thingstad at chello.no
Fri Dec 20 11:44:22 EST 2002 
My advice. Don't
The reason no such utillity exists is because it is damn near impossible to 
create such a mapping.
The C language is a context free grammar (LR(1)) while a flow chart is a 
regular grammar.
The grammars that can be expessed by a context free grammar are a superset 
of the grammars that can be expessed be a regular grammar.
This means there is no general mapping from one to the other. The other way 
from flow chart to C works fine.
Altso forget translating C into python.
Instead figure out what the program does.
Write a spec of behaviour and write the python program from scratch using 
this.

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:50:57 -0500, noc <bkd at graphnet.com> wrote:

> I have a c program that I want to replace with a python script.
>
> So I guess that means roll my own, which means building a c interpreter, 
> by
> which time I'll have relearnt enough c to read the code in the first 
> place,
> but producing code is much cooler than simply reading code.
>
> So, does anybody have any hints or pointers to hints that would help on 
> this
> mad errand?
>
> Thanks
> Bruce
>
>
>

John Thingstad
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