Re: C parser yielding syntax tree data structure?

> > 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). ...


> I don't know which if any of these may fulfill your needs, but they may be
> worth a look. I also noticed some of the links are bad as I posted, but
> they may still help you to track them down.
>
> CIL - C Intermediate Language - C to C transformation
> http://manju.cs.berkeley.edu/cil/
>
> WCC - A C Subset Compiler (DECUS ftp links now appear to be dead...sorry)
> http://www.decus.org/libcatalog/description_html/v00281.html
> ftp://ftp.encompassus.org/lib/
>
> npath - C Source Complexity Measures
> http://www.geonius.com/software/tools/npath.html
>
> Check: A unit test framework for C
> http://check.sourceforge.net/
>
> CTool Library (call-graph generator, source transformations)
> http://ctool.sourceforge.net/
>
> Cproto automatically generates C function prototypes
> http://cproto.sourceforge.net/
>
> JSCPP - a C preprocessor + parser with special modes
> http://www.die-schoens.de/prg/
>
> CXREF C language cross referencing program
> in volume1 of comp.sources.unix:
> http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/
>
> CSur Le projet Csur (in French)
> An analyzer of code C to detect common program execution errors
> http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~goubault/Csur/csur.html
>
> Chico State Mini-C Compiler (CSMCC) is a student training load-and-go
> compiler (incomplete, teaching tool)
> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~sameerg/compproj.html
> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~hilzer/csci250/proj/
>
> Edward Willink's C++ grammars:
> http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/research/dsrg/fog/
> (some of the links have an extra text '/v' in them, just delete)
>
> ISO C/C++ grammars version 1.2 (c-c++-grammars-1.2.tar.gz)
> http://www.sigala.it/sandro/download.php
>
> A C99 Parser, a recursive decent parser
> http://www.mazumdar.demon.co.uk/c_parser.html
>
> Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of language objects
> http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
>
> Cdecl English<->C translator for C declarations
> cdecl in volume6 of comp.sources.unix:
> cdecl2 in volume14 of comp.sources.unix:
> http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/


These additional links may be of some use. ASTRÉE appears to be great
but I don't see any code release...


CCURED memory safe C transformations (for CIL)
http://manju.cs.berkeley.edu/ccured/


C Code Checker (for CIL)
http://www.drugphish.ch/~jonny/cca.html


PScan Scan C files for format string overflows
http://www.striker.ottawa.on.ca/~aland/pscan/


CQUAL C checking through extended type qualifiers
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jfoster/cqual/


Smatch - Source Matcher, C source checker for Linux Kernel
http://smatch.sourceforge.net/


SPLint Secure Programming Lint error detection
http://www.splint.org


BOON Buffer Overrun detectiON
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/boon/


CZECH, project pedantic error detection
http://pedantic.sourceforge.net/


Flawfinder for C (in Python)
http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder/


ASTRÉE determines absence of runtime errors (in OCAML)
http://www.astree.ens.fr/
"In Nov. 2003, ASTRÉE was able to prove completely automatically the absence
of any RTE in the primary flight control software of the Airbus A340
fly-by-wire system, a program of 132,000 lines of C"




Rod Pemberton

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