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EasyRexx Benchmark Modula-2 Translation Notes
11/5/95
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REQUIREMENTS

   > Benchmark M2 compiler v1 or higher
   > Benchmark M2 Interface for AmigaDOS v2.04 or higher

Interface Definition Translation

   > Removed underscores from identifiers.

   > ARexxContext and ARexxCommandShell are hidden types. Fields accessed only
     via functions from this interface.

   > C macros are procedures.

   > C static initialization of recording pointer is a pair
     of Create/Free procedures.

   > No variable-number-of-parameters procedures.

Interface Implementation

   > Resident library link via stub routines.

Protos Translation

   > Define an additional identifier, AREXXENDTABLE, the index of the
     last entry in the command table.

   > The main program needs a name.

   > Command table's initialization is done by a call to an initializier
     procedure.

   > Utilizes library base from implementation, and relies on that module's
     initialization to start it out at NIL.

M2 Syntax Notes

   > CASE (switch) statement case separation marker is "|". Put one after each case as you
     would a break;

     eg,    CASE i OF
               0: a := b+1;
                  c := d+2;
                  |
               1: a := d+1;
                  |
               2: a := d+2;
                  c := b+1;
            END;


Files

   > EasyRexx.def  - definition module for EasyRexx library.
   > EasyRexx.mod  - implementation module for calling EasyRexx library.

   > Funcs.mod     - template of procedure variable processing code generation
   > IDS.mod       - template of case statement processing code generation

   > TstFuncs      - program using procedure variable processing
   > TstMacros     - program using case statement processing
   > TstShell      - program opening an arexx console
   > TstPointer    - program displaying "recording" pointer

   > Assembly3.def/mod   - support module for EasyRexx.mod

   > Assertions0.def/mod - support module for some of the test programs
   > Str0.def/mod        - support module for some of the test programs
   > Str1.def/mod        - support module for some of the test programs
   > TagsUtils.def/mod   - support module for some of the test programs

   > Notes.txt     - this file