Re: AST for several modules

Andreas Ames <Andreas.Ames@Tenovis.com> wrote:
>Till now I only know about descriptions how to build ASTs for single
>modules for programming languages like C, assembler etc. I wonder if
>somebody could give me some hints about how to parse and build a
>single ( or several connected ) ASTs for several modules/files,


    I think that the answer here is to simply chain the definitions
together in a list. The AST is built for each module and the module
is added to the module list, which is either kept in the AST or in a
separate data structure (I'd keep it in the AST).


    Control flow/data flow analysis is done on a module basis. Of
course functions can be in-lined, making them part of another module.


    My answer seems rather simplistic, so perhaps I have missed your
point here.


    Ian Kaplan
    abuse@bearcave.com

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