Pascal to C source code translator

[JD]

On 05/23/11 05:05, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Marko Vojinovic<vvmarko at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sunday 22 May 2011 02:23:36 Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>> On 05/21/2011 08:27 PM, JD wrote:
>>>> This is the sample pascal module:
>>> This is not PASCAL.  It might very well be Object Pascal, which is a
>>> (slightly) different language.  Different enough that the p2c compiler
>>> does not know about the extensions in Object Pascal, so I can see how it
>>> would fail.  You need to find an Object Pascal to C translator....
>> AFAIK, an OO language cannot be mapped into a procedural one so easily. Maybe
>> you can find an Object Pascal to C++ translator, but I'm not so sure it's
>> translatable to just C. Not by a machine, anyway.
> ??
>
> Sure it can. Or, at least, object languages that have their roots in
> procedural languages can be translated to C. C++ is just one example,
> although I'll admit that it turned/turns out to be harder than it
> first appeared when a lot of us thought we could just pervert or maybe
> extend the pre-processor. You do need a lot of runtime support
> (special libraries), and you end up with a lot of odd-looking function
> calls.
>
> The output of the translation step is by no means pretty, ....
>
> A lot of the peculiarities in both Java and C++ are derived from false
> paths taken in that adventure, near as I can tell.
>
> JD --
>
> You have checked the wikipedia page on object pascal, right?
>
> Is there a reason you need C source output?
I thought I would convert a pascal source code to C
simply because I would rather work in C than pascal.
But if there is no free real working translator for OO Pascal
to C, I abandoned the effort.