C/C++ front-end extension a la SWIG?

Daniel Berlin dan@cgsoftware.com
Thu Jun 29 12:22:00 GMT 2000


> 
> 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.
> 

Um, what?
OpenC++ uses a hand coded, very nice, LL(k) (k= mostly 1, occasionally
2) C++ parser.
It's acutally a great example of how to hand code a C++ parser.

TEndra uses their own parser generateor, which is very difficult to
understand.


> 
> -Andi 
> 



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