Re: Translating OO program to procedural program

moop wrote:
> I am working on a project translates OO programs to procedural
> programs, such as translating C++ to C and the like. I hope this
> effort can be spreaded out to other langs, so I am working on to
> abstract the common issues of doing so. I know there is a pinoneer
> attempt is C Front which produce C++ programs via a C compiler, I want
> to have a look on that, but still cannot find it now, anyone can
> suggest this to me?


What you're trying to do is a very well understood task, as all object
oriented languages must be compiled to non OO code (well, excluding
interpreted languages, and those compilers targeting OOVMs -- though
in that case the vm is taking over the task of converting to non-oo
structures).


Anyway, I have answered a similar question before in this thread,
going over the basic of how single inheritance works in a vtable based
OO language. I can't remember when i posted (John, you may know), but
i have a copy in my poorly updated and unread blog --
http://thepageofdoom.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_thepageofdoom_archive.html


--Oliver
[It's http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/06-03-083. Google is
your friend; I've designed the archives to be very thoroughly indexed.
  -John]

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