I already reused part of this a few months ago to automatically refactor a large body of C code (around 10k LOC)[1]. Some time ago, Go converted (by hand) the v

I already reused part of this a few months ago to automatically refactor a large body of C code (around 10k LOC)[1]. Some time ago, Go converted (by hand) the various Plan 9 linkers used into a library, and I had to do the same for the arm64 linker. I'm not sure if I saved time or not (I think I did) for the effective work, but I definitely saved time (and stress) overall, as the conversion was without bugs. I know for sure that I would have introduced a lot of bugs if I did this manually. Tools that understand source code are great, and I'm really excited about the new Go compilers. [1] https://code.google.com/p/rbits/source/browse/7lfix/main.go https://code.google.com/p/rbits/source/browse/7lfix/main.go