On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:20:20 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't see why that should be a problem.  All target languages support =
a
>limited set of integer types.  This is just a more restrictive set than
>usual, but shouldn't change the translator code any.
>
Not sure it's that simple. Say for example, in the original Pascal source
you have a data structure that includes the two fields:

abc : byte ;
def : byte ;

And lets assume that abc is word aligned, and we have two assignments:

abc :=3D 100 ;
def :=3D 200 ;

When I convert to the 16 bit target using C I would normally convert =
these into:
(with "word" defined as "unsigned int", and "or" defined as "|")

word abc_def ;

abc_def =3D (100 << 8) or 200 ;

likewise, say you have the comparison:

if abc > 50

I would convert this to:

if ((abc >> 8) > 50)

Can your translator really do this? Did you write it yourself?

Bob

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