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Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in automated code translation. While prior work has focused on improving translation accuracy through advanced prompting and iterative repair, the reliability of the underlying…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for program translation, particularly for migrating systems code to memory-safe languages such as Rust. However, existing approaches struggle when source programs depend on external libraries:…

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In this paper, we leverage low-level compiler intermediate representations (IR) to improve code translation. Traditional transpilers rely on syntactic information and handcrafted rules, which limits their applicability and produces…

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