Re: Looking for C declaration parser

kik@ironwood.cray.com (Krishna Ksheerabdhi)
Wed, 8 Feb 1995 19:22:02 GMT

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From: kik@ironwood.cray.com (Krishna Ksheerabdhi)
Keywords: tools, C
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 95-02-067
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 19:22:02 GMT

-> There used to be a program called 'explain' that read C declarations
-> and "explained them". I went looking in the uunet archives and
-> couldn't find anything appropriate. Anybody else got ideas?


Well, I dont know of a tool, but there is a little article in one of
the SIGPLAN notices (within the last couple of years, does anybody
recall?) by Mody wherein he mentions a systematic scheme for parsing
(actually reading) and interpreting C declarations. If you dont find a
tool that would be a nice starting point. I recall it being
comprehensive, and at most a couple of pages, so I am not pointing you
to an unreadable and long semantics article;-)


Cheers,
Ksheerabdhi Krishna


Cray Research, Inc. Phone: (505) 988-2468 (x28)
Santa Fe, NM 87501 e-mail: kik@cray.com
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