Re: C structure analyzer ("Reflection" in C?)

"Jan Gray" <jsgray@acm.org> writes:


> [I suspect it'd be easier to write some perl programs that understand
> just enough C to process the structure declarations in the source than
> to grovel through the COFF symbols. -John]


I'd imagine that glue-generating tools like SWIG (which parses C/C++
to automatically generate glue-code for embedded scripting languages
like Perl, Tcl, Guile, etc.) could be "misused" for this job.
Especially SWIG seems well suited for something like this. See
http://www.swig.org/ for information on SWIG.


I'd try to avoid writing something to parse the C headers, since this
usually ends up being more work than at first assumed (depending on
the headers in question, typedefs have to be resolved, etc.)...


Regs, Pierre.
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[Someone else wrote in and noted that in the CPAN perl archive there's
a C source analysis module that looks like it does a pretty good job
of parsing C code. -John]

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