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Re: C/C++ front-end extension a la SWIG?
thi <ttn@revel.glug.org> writes:
> From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:40:24 +0200
>
> In my opinion, separating the C++ front-end from gcc is pointless.
> What you get is more or less the parser, and the g++ parser is not
> something you want to use unless you really have to. There are a
> number of other good C++ parsers - I'd consider those first if I
> needed one for a project.
>
> any particular recommendations?
OpenC++ and the Tendra C++ frontend look reasonably clean (the later is writen
using a strange lexer/parser generator though) OpenC++ uses a bison parser, but
it seems to use much less hacks than the g++ frontend to parse the difficult
parts in C++'s syntax.
Both do not parse all g++ language extensions.
-Andi