| RE: [cdt-core-dev] Open C++ Parser |
That's a great idea, Alain. I'll give it a shot.
Doug Schaefer
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Rational - the software development company
Ottawa (Kanata), Ontario, Canada
-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Magloire [mailto:alain@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 7:38 PM
To: cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cdt-core-dev] Open C++ Parser
>
> Hey all,
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> We're having a lot of fun here porting the Open C++ parser to Java for
> potential use in the CDT. We've started parsing some basic things like
> stdio.h and performance up until now seems to be reasonable.
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> However, before we get too far, people on the conference call on Monday
> mentioned they had experience with the Open C++ parser and were willing to
> share that with us. If you were one of those persons, could you please drop
> us a line. I have made some changes to make the parser do what we want
> including: our own handwritten scanner that also handles pre-processor
> directives, using exceptions for backtracking, replacing the Ptree with our
> own JDT-like AST, amongst other minor changes. In the end, we're really
> only using the grammar and the strategy of handwriting the parser. And it
> seems to be working although there is a lot of testing that needs to go
> on...
>
I would propose, if that can make things easier for you, to make a
branch, openc-cpp or something.
This would be a developement branch. Then we can merge it back or not.
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