On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Ricardo Moran
<richi.moran@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.
Hi Javier,
That's a great project and I'm highly interested in it. I'm not experienced in PetitParser so I won't be a lot of help, but I'll give it a try.
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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)
Maybe you already thought of this but what if you make your parser build some simple C AST and then you make specific visitors for each kind of FFI?
I didn't think of it because I never did a parser before and have no experience with PP. Is it the clean way to do it? How is that implented? maybe have for each expression in the bnf a class that represents it, and make PP create the instances?
Cheers
Richo
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Anybody who is interested is welcomed to help in the development!
Regards,
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