Re: identify gcc C (and C++) frontend source files

[Stefan Strasser <sstrasser at systemhaus-gruppe dot de>]

George Florea schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build a smart refactoring tool for C and
> later C++ and want to use the gcc frontend.
>
> After reading the relevant parts from the "Internals"
> manual (chapter 9 particularly), I've looked around
> the source code to extract the parts I need. Working
> my way up from the lexer and parser didn't get me very
> far so I figured somebody here may be willing to give
> me some help  with this.

I could tell you a few things about where to start but if I understand 
the term "refactoring" correctly(I wasn't aware of it before googling) 
you might want to have a look at this:
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~strasser/metacpp/

the version released atm can only process headers(->no function bodies) 
but full source processing incl. bodies is finished in the main.

the refactoring products I've found seem the preserve code readability 
which my project doesn't, but I assume you don't need this because 
that's not possible with GCC's parser.



--
Stefan Strasser