Graham, Definitely not nonsense, and is the solution I will use unless I can find a more direct route. I have done this in the past for YACC to generate C++ on Windows systems. The headache with this solution is that the Xcode has a built-in rule that goes from YACC to C and tries to compile immediately. I will have to learn how to replace the built-in YACC rule with something else.
Thanks again for your suggestion, Tom Wetmore On Mar 9, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 10/03/2010, at 9:00 AM, Thomas Wetmore wrote: > >> Yacc (and Bison) convert yacc files into C files. Instead I would like to >> generate Objective-C files so I can use Cocoa containers classes and >> NSString to get Unicode for free. I do see that bison can generate C++ >> instead of C. Does anyone know whether there is any version of yacc or bison >> that has been modified to generate Objective-C? Or if there is any other >> parser generator available that can generate Objective-C. > > > I haven't tried it, so this might be nonsense, but I think that YACC simply > copies the emitted code from the source file to the final C file. That means > that could be Objective-C code - you'd only need to change the file extension > from .c to .m to compile it. As long as the emitted code is the only > Objective-C and therefore not required to be parsed by YACC, I reckon it > ought to work. > > --Graham > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
