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steveh@intermec.com (Steve Heckt) writes:

>Please excuse me if this is a FAQ.

>I'm hoping to find a product (freeware, shareware or "purchased-ware")
>that will take as input a protocol described in a "protocol description
>language" (is there such a thing?) and translate it into ANSI C code.
>Does this software exist and if so where, how much and how useful?

The only product that I've encountered that does anything even remotely
like this is IBM's OSI/CS on VM, AS/400, or OS/2.

Their is such a thing as a "protocol description language", at least in
ISO circles, and it is referred to as Abstract Syntax Notation 1, or ASN.1.
It is simply a derivative of BNF.

At any rate, the OSI/CS products include as part of the Presentation Layer
something called an Abstract Syntax Checker which takes as input ASN.1 and
outputs either COBOL or C data structures.  You can then use the Presentation
Layer of OSI/CS to encode/decode data as specified by the original ASN.1.

As to whether or not that's useful, well, I don't believe that this product
has sold very well.  Of course, that probably has a lot to do with the
poor reception of OSI.
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