Proof of concept: automatically import C header files

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 at 05:12:00 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
> what's a non-full C front end? If it's not a real C front end 
> it's gonna
> break with certain macros etc. Not good.
>

Macro are processed before parsing? No need for a full C frontend 
to handle macros.

> I see no point in re-implementing a C front end when we can 
> simply use an
> existing one to do the job (eg clang). This would also allow to 
> parse C++
> just as well.

When you only need a very limited part of the fronted, it make 
sense. Here we don't need to parse function body for instance, 
and we can skip most of semantic analysis (if not all ?).