On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:

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.

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Yes, and I don't know what to do, and would like to know if you or someone else have any idea of how to solve it. I will think some approach, but if you have some idea to share it would be better so I go directly to a good solution. I'm thinking that to feed the parser I'll have to preprocess the string with another parser, and make a string to string conversion by having a set of defines and paths so that #includes and #ifdefs work. But probably I'll need a cache because the generated string will be huge.

What do you think?

Regards,

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Cheers,
Alexandre

On 7 Apr 2011, at 23:53, Javier Pim�s wrote:

> by the way, the grammar is based on
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> http://www.quut.com/c/ANSI-C-grammar-l-1998.html
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> and
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> http://www.quut.com/c/ANSI-C-grammar-y.html
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> I'd be very grateful if you contribute to cover the full extent of it!
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> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Javier Pim�s <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.
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> 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)
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> You can see the code, download it and commit improvements to the repo at www.squeaksource.com/Bindings
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> Anybody who is interested is welcomed to help in the development!
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> Regards,
> � � � � � Javier.
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