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On 27.11.2010 22:49, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> On 27.11.2010 17:46, Julia Lawall wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Jani Monoses wrote >>> >>>> On 11/27/2010 02:44 PM, Julia Lawall wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I think it is possible, and indeed a C++ parser has been written that is >>>>> compatible with Coccinelle. Doing the simple case as you suggest is even >>>>> probably not too hard. But at the moment we do not have the resources to >>>>> look into it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> thanks for the prompt reply. >>>> Is the C++ parser code available along with some documentation on how it >>>> can >>>> be used with Coccinelle? >>>> >>>> >>> There is no documentation. Furthermore, it is only a parser, it does not >>> construct an abstract syntax tree, so compatible with Coccinelle may not >>> mean much more than it is written in ocaml. I think it is available, but >>> I am not sure where. Perhaps Nicolas or Yoann can answer. >>> >>> >> This may be a dumb question, but is there any reason the C++ parser in >> llvm/clang can't be used? It is compatible with gcc, and AFAIK it is >> rather easy to make it spit out an AST in the format you want. >> The LLVM developers are very open to suggestions, and many people have >> used LLVM in their own projects. >> Apparently LLVM ships with OCaml bindings by default, so it may not be >> too hard to use it. >> > > Perhaps it relies on CPP (ie expansion of macros) having been performed in > advance? Coccinelle needs to parse the code as it is, not parse it into > some simplified internal representation, so that it can reconstruct the > code after transformation. This includes keeping information about all > whitespace and comments. > Regards, Carl-Daniel _______________________________________________ Cocci mailing list [email protected] http://lists.diku.dk/mailman/listinfo/cocci (Web access from inside DIKUs LAN only)
