GCC Parse Tree/Grammar Issues

Foolish Ewe foolishewe@hotmail.com
Tue Apr 15 03:40:00 GMT 2003


Thanks, this might be promising.   Initially I'd like to try to generate a 
parse tree
that  has the fewest transformations after preprocessing completes.   I'm 
also
assuming that the GENERIC tree does this, is this correct?

Steven Bosscher writes:
>
>Op ma 14-04-2003, om 18:08 schreef Foolish Ewe:
> > 2) Am I correct that gcc uses an ad hoc scanner, I did not see a file 
>wiith
>
>GCC has an integrated preprocessor.  Look at the cpp* files.
>
> > 3) Can I get gcc to dump its parse tree (or AST) without hacking it?  If 
>so,
> > what is the
> >      format of the dump?  Is tree-dump.c the right module to look at?
>
>Check out the tree-ssa project -- http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/
>It can dump the AST in different stages of the tree optimizers.  The
>dumps can look like C or like something that is more detailed but not
>very human-readable.
>

Thanks:

Bill M. (Last Name withheld to reduce spam)

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