Awk to C translator

[Vicki Brown]

(Lost the orignal posting...sorry):
>>and I was hoping there was a free or inexpensive way to translate
>>my AWK source into compilable C code.  Does anyone know of such a
>>beast?

The AT&T ToolChest sells awkcc, an awk-to-C translator.  It's relatively
inexpensive (< $200 (source) as I recall).  It's quite well documented.

This isn't necessarily a recommendation.  I tried it over a year
ago, and it didn't handle some things I did in new awk, and the C it
produces is really weird - maybe a good candidate for the Obfuscated C
contest!  So I decided my awk code was fast enough.

However, it is out there, and it may have been improved.  Also, it probably
works well on simpler scripts (mine rarely are :-).  

The author of awkcc does make the following comment: Unless running a
program is expensive, one should not compile it... High-level programs
cannot be improved much by compilation.

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