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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 deathcap
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
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+# transpile-c-to-js
+
+An experiment in transpiling C source code to JavaScript using [pycparser](https://github.com/eliben/pycparser)
+
+Unlike [emscriptem](https://github.com/kripken/emscripten), for example, the compiled output is not
+low-level/asm.js but intended to resemble the high-level C source code as much as possible.
+The resulting JavaScript output is meant to be syntactically valid, but will not meaningfully execute
+without further manual porting efforts.
+
+Usage:
+
+    sudo easy_install pycparser
+    python ptranspile.py hello.c
+
+Example C input:
+
+```c
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+    int a = 1;
+    const double pi = 3.14159;
+    static char *s = "foo";
+
+    printf("Hello, world!\n");
+
+    if (a == 2) exit(1);
+
+    return 0;
+}
+```
+
+Example JavaScript output:
+
+```javascript
+function main(argc, argv)
+{
+  let a = 1;
+  const pi = 3.14159;
+  let s = "foo";
+  printf("Hello, world!\n");
+  if (a === 2)
+    exit(1);
+
+  return 0;
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+MIT