Arie Middelkoop wrote:
>>> In SmPL pseudo
>>> (and invalid) code I'm looking for something that does:
>>> @@
>>> macro interface;
>>> @@
>>> - interface
>>> + struct
>>>
>>> Just using perl (interface is a very common word in the comments) or
>>> removing/modifying the define (it is used in macro expansion (API) as
>>> well in generated code from IDL) is very tedious and I wonder if there
>>> is a cleaner way to achieve it; preferably in coccinelle.
>> I'm not seeing anything very obvious. The problem is that the SmPL code
>> doesn't take into account the macro definition file. So it won't know
>> what to do with interface.
>
> What if you could define an additional set of keywords and for each keyword a
> mapping to a sequence of tokens?
> In that case, you can perform such substitutions before the actual parse
> process starts. This would work for your particular problem: but it's rather
> early in the entire process to be really useful.
> (not to mention that I'm not sure if it is possible to 'dynamically' extend
> the lexer)
It doesn't need to be dynamic. What I have done is to add in
parsing_c/lexer_c.mll in the keyword_table
"interface", (fun ii -> Tstruct ii);
There is already a section there for Windows extensions.
No clue yet if this is enough as I didn't have time to test it; I'll do
that tonight at home.
bye
michael
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