Re: Parsing C typedefs using yacc

  Andrew Dunbar <andrewd@agnus.livewire.com.au> writes:


>I'm trying to parse C using yacc but I've hit a problem with
>typedefs. [Is there an approximate way to parse typedefs without
>expanding all the include files?]
>...
>I'm only trying to make some tools to manipulate indenting, alter
>the names of global variables and such. It does not have to be
>100% accurate.




  I'm afraid you'll have to process include files (I can't imagine
another solution). If you are interested on a C grammar for yacc and
lex, you can download it from my ftp-site:


  ftp://ftp.s04.eps.ua.es:dlsi/members/paco/cgram


  In that directory you can find a C grammar for yacc and lex which
does not solve the "typedef problem" (I ftped it from
primost.cs.wisc.edu , file c-grammar.gz, and its author is Jeff Lee
jeff@gatech). The files are scan.l.bak and gram.y.bak .


  I made some changes to these files to fix the "typedef problem"
(didn,t fix the "include problem", sorry) and I added some extra
actions to build a linked (linked) list of all tokens and lexemes of
the source program. These actions could be used to write something
like a pretty printer (or to build an indenting tool). There is no
documentation and no comments (except a few ones in spanish), but I
think you would have no problem understanding it (if so, please email
me and I will help you).


  Hope this helps!


  Paco Moreno Seco
  paco@dlsi.ua.es
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