On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Ricardo Moran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Javier Pimás > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> I took some time to start developing a C parser with PetitParser. I >> used the slides of the smalltalk school, they were pretty useful, and after >> some hours I have a very basic tokens scanner. The idea of this work is to >> be able to feed the parser with C headers and automagically get the C >> bindings done in smalltalk. >> >> > Hi Javier, > > That's a great project and I'm highly interested in it. I'm not experienced > in PetitParser so I won't be a lot of help, but I'll give it a try. > excelent > > >> Now I have to actually start doing something with the scanned code. How >> should I do that, all in the same class? What if I want to generate bindings >> for different kinds of FFIs? Other question, how should I handle >> preprocessing? (now there isn't any kind of preprocessing) >> > > Maybe you already thought of this but what if you make your parser build > some simple C AST and then you make specific visitors for each kind of FFI? > I didn't think of it because I never did a parser before and have no experience with PP. Is it the clean way to do it? How is that implented? maybe have for each expression in the bnf a class that represents it, and make PP create the instances? > Cheers > Richo > > >> >> You can see the code, download it and commit improvements to the repo at >> www.squeaksource.com/Bindings >> >> Anybody who is interested is welcomed to help in the development! >> >> Regards, >> Javier. >> >> -- >> Javier Pimás >> Ciudad de Buenos Aires >> > > -- Javier Pimás Ciudad de Buenos Aires
