Re: Pointers to "why C behaves like that ?"

Roman Shaposhnick <vugluskr@unicorn.math.spbu.ru> wrote:


> It seems that having a way to ask compiler for an AST would benefit
> a lot of people, trying to do something like you've mentioned. The
> question, however is -- where can one get such a tool for languages
> like C and C++.


LCC is quite nice for C, I used this for a tool called FFIGen. See
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lth/ffigen/. (There is a newer version
somewhere on the net, but Google professes ignorance.)


For C++ it is a little more grim; an older tool is Sage++ from Indiana
University, see http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/sage. It works OK but
in practice it had a hard time with more complicated aspects of the
language. (This is six years ago, things may have changed.) A more
recent version, built on better tools I think, is the Program Database
Toolkit from University of Oregon,
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paracomp/proj/pdtoolkit/.


--lars

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