Re: C parser yielding syntax tree data structure?

Arndt Muehlenfeld <muehlenf@sbox.tugraz.at>
12 Apr 2006 22:48:59 -0400

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From: Arndt Muehlenfeld <muehlenf@sbox.tugraz.at>
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.compilers,comp.lang.c
Followup-To: comp.software-eng,comp.compilers,comp.lang.c
Date: 12 Apr 2006 22:48:59 -0400
Organization: TU Graz
References: 06-04-044
Keywords: C, parse
Posted-Date: 12 Apr 2006 22:48:59 EDT

(Jamie Andrews) wrote:


> For a research project, we're looking for a reliable parser for C
> that will take an ANSI C program and yield a tree representation of
> the program (as a Java or C++ object). Of course a grammar e.g. in
> jflex/jbison that will yield the same thing is fine too. We have been
> able to find some grammars and parsers, of unknown reliability, that
> don't yield a syntax tree; we want to avoid starting with a flaky
> parser and/or adding the syntax tree code.


On my search for a C++ Parser that yields an AST, I tried two
parsers, that look fine for C, while not being able to parse all C++
constructs.


- C or C++ grammar for ANTLR (http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list)


- ELSA/Elkhound (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~smcpeak/elkhound/)


I am currently using ELSA, hoping the few remaining bugs
(resp. C++) are fixed some time.


Cheers,
Arndt

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