What is tricky with analyzing C are macros and preprocessors directive. srcML does a satisfactory job. But indeed, having a solution based on PetitParser is indeed promising. Cheers, Alexandre On 7 Apr 2011, at 23:53, Javier Pimás wrote:
by the way, the grammar is based on
http://www.quut.com/c/ANSI-C-grammar-l-1998.html
and
http://www.quut.com/c/ANSI-C-grammar-y.html
I'd be very grateful if you contribute to cover the full extent of it!
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Javier Pimás <elpochodelagente@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I took some time to start developing a C parser with PetitParser. I used the slides of the smalltalk school, they were pretty useful, and after some hours I have a very basic tokens scanner. The idea of this work is to be able to feed the parser with C headers and automagically get the C bindings done in smalltalk.
Now I have to actually start doing something with the scanned code. How should I do that, all in the same class? What if I want to generate bindings for different kinds of FFIs? Other question, how should I handle preprocessing? (now there isn't any kind of preprocessing)
You can see the code, download it and commit improvements to the repo at www.squeaksource.com/Bindings
Anybody who is interested is welcomed to help in the development!
Regards, Javier.
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