https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438206
--- Comment #12 from Sven Brauch <m...@svenbrauch.de> --- Any help is certainly very welcome. I am not very active on IRC currently, but I definitely read and answer kdevelop-de...@kde.org. In principle, the task is simple: in parser/ast.h we have our own data structure for an AST, and that needs to be populated. The current way to do that is based on a... let's say, "creative" domain-specific language which describes how CPython's internal AST representation maps to ours from ast.h. C code is generated from this DSL file. You could just as well write that C code by hand -- it's not actually that much, a few hundred lines. This doesn't work any more, because CPython's representation is gone. There are certainly several different approaches to fix this, I think my suggestion above is the most straightforward one since it doesn't structurally change anything. Though, if one has to touch all this stuff *anyways*, it might be worth evaluating other parser libraries which support also e.g. proper incomplete parsing. I'd honestly opt for whatever the person doing it feels most comfortable with. I wouldn't discard approaches involving serializing/deserializing the AST (e.g. to/from XML) because of performance concerns; XML stream serialization/deserialization (i.e. if you avoid building a DOM) is extremely fast, and I'm pretty sure that the impact is negligible compared to the semantic analysis effort later on. The only thing I'd really try to avoid is spawning a process for each parse job. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
