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Re: Linkage of GPLed GCC to Closed Source via XML or Perl
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz, dewar at gnat dot com, dnovillo at acm dot org,mdupont777 at yahoo dot com
- Cc: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, gcc at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 04:52:28 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Linkage of GPLed GCC to Closed Source via XML or Perl
<<The only thing is, for the end user of a introspection
system you will need to present them an interface into
the AST.
>>
In the case of Ada, this is taken care of in an implementation independent
manner by the ASIS (Ada Semantic Interface Specification) standard, which
specifies a portable interface to the semantic information for an Ada program.
Too bad there is nothing comparable for C or C++.