ofront

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Quick description about ofront:

Ofront+ is a tool that translates Oberon-2 programs into semantically equivalent C programs. Full error analysis is performed on the Oberon input program and in case of no errors up to three files are generated as output.

Ofront+ does not invoke the C compiler or linkage editor. This may be done in separate shell scripts or make files and is inherently dependent on the C compiler and linkage editor being used.

Although normally not read by the user, the C code generated by Ofront+ is kept as readable as possible, nicely formatted, should not produce any C compiler error messages or warnings and is tuned for efficient execution. In fact, an Oberon program translated by Ofront+ can be expected to execute as fast and read as well as an equivalent hand-coded C program.

Ofront+ is based on Ofront by Software Templ OEG. Here are two versions:

1. Ofront+ for Windows & Linux command line

2. Ofront+ for BlackBox Component Builder (runs as a subsystem)

Features:

• full Oberon-2 language support (it's structured and modular succesor of Pascal and Modula-2). Also small subset of Component Pascal is implemented
• you'll be able to use a C compiler for the respective target platform
• extensible module interfaces
• fast translation
• parameterization for arbitrary C compilers, ANSI and K&R
• highly compact and efficient run-time system
• automatic precise garbage collection
• advanced heap management (growth on demand, finalization)
• commands and modules preserved
• dynamic loading of modules or subsystems
• interfacing with C or other foreign languages
• clean and human-readable C code
• information hiding preserved in the generated header files
• multiple libraries available
• command-line version and integrated development environment (under BlackBox Component Builder)

Audience: Education, Developers, Engineering.
User interface: Console/Terminal, Command-line.
Programming Language: Oberon.

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