You may find the concept of semantic slicing relevant: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/martin/papers/csmr2005-t.pdf There is software at: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/fermat.html
One possible path to explore is to take GNU C etc intermediate representation of source as the "assembly language" of a VM and reverse from that to a more portable VM, as in Squeak or Java. Perhaps Ometa could be combined in some way with FermaT to recognise patterns and port legacy code to a fonc VM ?
Regards, Gerry Jensen 02 9713 6004
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