Jim Roskind's C grammar (c5.y)

In the interesting grammar for C kindly supplied to the Usenet community by
"jar@hq.ileaf.com (Jim Roskind)", a simple hack to identify typedef names is
used in order to allow users to experiment with his grammar. The hack is that
typedef names must begin with a capital letter.


I have made a small modification to the grammar and flex files to make the
handling of typedef names a *little* more realistic. In the modified version
I keep a list of typedef names and the lexer simply searches this list to
determine if IDENTIFIER or TYPEDEFname should be returned to yacc. Of course,
this is still a hack in that the proper scope rules are not used.
Nevertheless, this change enables a large number of C modules to be analysed
*without* having to edit all the typedefs.


If I get any more time, I may put the proper scoping in.


For people that have access to large amounts of C code (e.g. UNIX source) and
some sort of `context grep', I would be interested in what percentage of
typedefs are actually local to a function or block.
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