TUtuananh·Sep 21, 2020
c to go transpiler exists https://github.com/elliotchance/c2go
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c2go
⚖️ A tool for transpiling C to Go.
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In The Value in Go’s SimplicityThe original c2go Go transpiler used to transform the original C compiler to Go wasn't able to produce identically-behaving code, last I heard. It required manual editing. It's no longer maintained, but the fork [1] is much more ambitious, and aims to produce compilable, working programs.
[1] https://github.com/elliotchance/c2go
In How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to DC2go v0.17.4 Samarium now supports transpiling multiple C files
1 points · Open discussionSort of related:
https://github.com/elliotchance/c2go
> The goals of this project are:
> .. The ultimate milestone is to be able to compile the SQLite3 source code and have it working without modification. This will be the 1.0.0 release.
So if that project does work out, there will be a Go SQLite implementation of sorts. No idea how messy/usable the result would be as a base for development though.
Note - haven't personally been tracking the project at all. More just that your statement prompted remembering it. :)
In Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in CC2go v0.16.0 Radium now supports stdlib
1 points · Open discussionGo is so close to C. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a program that could take C code and turn it into Go code?
There are few attempts to do that:
https://github.com/rsc/c2go
https://github.com/elliotchance/c2go
https://github.com/cznic/ccgo
elliotchance/c2go seems to be the most promising.
I didn’t try any of them as neither seems to be usable yet.
Actually, we used github.com/rsc/c2go to port our Go compilers and linkers from C to Go. It was 100% mechanical translation. No manual steps needed to achieve correctness.
github.com/cznic/ccgo was used to port sqlite to Go. It passes all the (very comprehensive) sqlite test suite.
They work very well. The code produced is not very idiomatic Go, but it's not some monstrous impenetrable computer generated code either. It's quite similar to the original
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C code and it's readable and refactorable enough. After we converted the compiler from C to Go, we spent a lot of time to make the code more idiomatic.
C2go v0.12.0 – now supports dynamic memory allocation
1 points · Open discussionC2go – ️ a tool for converting C to Go
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