Goldie Parsing System v0.4 Released - Now for D2

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 15.04.2011 09:50, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> Since you're talking about C, you'll probably want to run your original C 
> code through the "preprocess-only" option of a real C compiler. (I *think* 
> DMC will do that.) Then parse the resulting "preprocessed C" files with 
> Goldie. (Although if your goal is an HTOD-like tool, maybe you would need to 
> deal with the original un-preprocessed source directly. 

Why? Just call the preprocessor from your tool or from a wrapping script
and go on with the preprocessed C code. Should be much easier and more
compatible because C compilers ought to know how to preprocess correctly.
For GCC the option you're looking for is "-E", btw.

> If Golde's grammar 
> langauge doesn't seem quite up to the task, it probably wouldn't bee too 
> hard to just manually make a basic C preprocessor.)
> 

Cheers,
- Daniel