[Pharo-project] Initial PetitC parser

[Alexandre Bergel]

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
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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!
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Javier Pimás <elpochodelagente at 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
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> Anybody who is interested is welcomed to help in the development!
> 
> Regards,
>           Javier.
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> -- 
> Javier Pimás
> Ciudad de Buenos Aires
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Javier Pimás
> Ciudad de Buenos Aires

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