On Friday 08 September 2006 03:38, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > typical socket ocde currently looks a bit unfriendly due to magic > constants, e.g. > > socket sock, 2, 1, 6 # PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, tcp > > I'd like to have symbolic constants for all that stuff: > > socket sock .PF_INET, .SOCK_STREAM, .PROTO_tcp > > Appended is a C snippet, which produces such constants[1]. It's incomplete > and not integegrated in Configure/make at all, but maybe it is a starting > point. > > Q: is there a better option to generate these constants?
It'd sure be nice to have a PGE/TGE parser that could understand C header files and generate static NCI code. (That is, don't make the FFI mistake of parsing the header files every time you run the program that uses them.) -- c
