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This directory contains "p2c" version 1.21alpha-07.Dec.93, a Pascal to C translator.

"p2c" Copyright 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Written and maintained by: Dave Gillespie c/o Synaptics, Inc. 2698 Orchard Parkway San Jose CA 95134 [email protected], uunet!synaptx!daveg

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU License Agreement. See the file src/COPYING for details.

The GNU License Agreement restrictions do not apply to code generated by p2c, nor to the p2c run-time files "p2clib.c" and "p2c.h".

QUICK INSTRUCTIONS

The top-level Makefile in this directory tree knows how to build p2c and run it on some example programs. The compiled p2c will be "installed" in this directory tree rather than in public directories. (For a full public installation, see the instructions below.) Just type "make test" to build p2c and run the examples.

FULL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

For a complete system, you must:

a) Create a home directory for p2c, such as /usr/lib/p2c. The exact location does not matter, as long as p2c knows how to find it.

b) Create an include directory, such as /usr/include/p2c. If you are unable to arrange for an include directory, you can edit sys.p2crc so as not to require one, or compile translated code with a suitable -I flag.

c) Install the executable "p2c" in /usr/bin or elsewhere on the standard search path. You may also wish to install "p2cc", a Perl script for running p2c as a Pascal compiler.

d) Install the run-time library "libp2c.a" in /usr/lib or elsewhere on the standard library search path.

e) Install the Unix manual entries "p2c.1" and "p2cc.1" in /usr/man/man1. If you have a "man1.Z" directory instead (for compressed man pages) you will have to edit the Makefile to use a "compress" command.

f) Install the necessary files in the p2c home directory.

The Makefile is initially set up to create a private version of p2c in the p2c distribution directory. Just "cd src" and "make install" to perform the above steps. This will place the p2c executable, run-time library, include directory, and man page in the "home" subdirectory of the distribution directory. The man page will be in human-readable form.

To compile code that has been translated by this private version of p2c, use the command:

cc -I. foo.c libp2c.a

(assuming "home," i.e., HOMEDIR, is the current directory.)

The "examples" subdirectory contains a few sample Pascal programs and a Makefile to translate and compile them.

To install p2c for public use, edit the Makefile to indicate the correct directory names. Suggested names are included as comments. Also change MANFILE as shown to store the man page in the proper form for the "man" command.

HOMEDIR      default /usr/lib/p2c       Home directory
INCDIR       default /usr/include/p2c   Include directory
BINDIR       default /usr/bin           Directory for "p2c" executable
LIBDIR       default /usr/lib           Directory for "libp2c.a" library
MANDIR       default /usr/man/man1      Directory for "p2c.1" manual page

Make sure the home and include directories have been created and are writable, and that the bin, lib, and man directories are writable. (You may have to be root to do this.) Recompile "p2c" with another "make install". Be sure "trans.c" is recompiled with the new value of HOMEDIR; you can ensure this by doing "make newhome" before "make install". You can always type "make" with no arguments to compile without installing.

HP Pascal Workstation System users will want to copy all of ../HP/include into the new p2c include directory, and copy all of ../HP/import into the p2c home directory. You will have to write emulations for the functions you use out of these modules. (The HP directories are present in the ftp distribution only---they have been omitted from the shar'd version to save space.)

Incomplete interface texts for standard Turbo units are included in turbo.imp. Turbo users will have to flesh these out and write emulations for whatever parts of the Turbo runtime library they need.

If you wish to edit various system-wide configuration parameters, it is better to put them in loc.p2crc than in sys.p2crc. As an example, on a Turbo-oriented environment you may wish to add

Language Turbo

to the loc.p2crc file to replace the normal default (HP Pascal).

PORTABILITY

P2c was originally developed on a homebrew C compiler on the HP Pascal Workstation operating system. Current development takes place on Sparcs using Sun OS. The translator has been compiled and used on a wide variety of Unix-like machines.

P2c was developed on systems with 32-bit ints, so porting to machines with 16-bit integers may be a bit rough. If you are on a PC, it is preferable to use a 32-bit compiler such as "djgpp", a port of the GNU C compiler. P2c might work on a 16-bit compiler that understood ANSI function prototypes.

Please note that code generated by p2c works with either size of int even though p2c itself may not.

The Macintosh is not officially supported for p2c, but Guenther Sawitzki [email protected] does some Mac support.

Because p2c was developed to run under Unix, it is sloppy about memory allocation. Some data structures are allocated but never freed. Profiles show that the waste is not too great in most cases, but if it is a problem you may have to write a garbage collector (this shouldn't be too hard if you only run the collector after translating each procedure).