[Pharo-project] Initial PetitC parser

[Stéphane Ducasse]

in that case you have also cil in oCaml used by Frama-C.

But I do not think that this is necessary to read all the ressources of earth.

Javier contact nick because he started (I guess to implement a parser for C using PP).

Stef
On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote:

> A good source of ideas: http://www.sdml.info/projects/srcml/
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> On 8 Apr 2011, at 12:57, Javier Pimás wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel at 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.
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>> What do you think?
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>> Regards,
>>            Javier. 
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>> Cheers,
>> Alexandre
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>> On 7 Apr 2011, at 23:53, Javier Pimás wrote:
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>>> 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 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.
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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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