[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[John Reagan]

"Phillip Helbig---undress to reply"  wrote in message 
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> Reverse-engineered might not be very efficient.

Or readable/maintainable by humans

Over the years, several "BLISS to C" converters have been investigated. 
Some internal attempts.  Some discussions with 3rd party companies.  All 
went down in flames.  The easy ones are easy. :)  The hard ones, well...

At this point in my career (and with lots of 20/20 hindsight), I think the 
best solution today would be to translate the "easy" ones and keep the hard 
ones as BLISS source and turn the BLISS frontend into the translator tool. 
Ensures source compatibility.  Debugging the code would be a PITA.  Or use 
some Perl/translator-tool into C.  Same problems debugging.

If it weren't for having to debug the stuff now and then, the problem gets 
easier.