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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
Date: 1 Apr 2025 17:35:11 GMT
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 14:40:27 -0000 (UTC), Robert Heller wrote:

> It should be noted that GnuCOBOL actually translates COBOL to C, and
> then compiles the C code with GnuC.  In *theory* one could just run the
> whole code base through GnuCOBOL and create a C code base, but good luck
> making much sense of the generated C code...

I never did it with COBOL but I did use 'f2c' to generate C code from 
Fortran. When I saw the results I wrote the C code manually. It probably 
would have compiled and ran but it was not maintainable. I've seen more 
readable output from disassemblers.