> From: bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
>
> > There's now a test example in xml/xslt addon,
> > which uses SWIG and XSLT to translate such C header
> >
> > /* ================================================ test.h == */
> >
> > double mul(float argFloat1, float argFloat2);
> > int sub(int argInt3, int argInt4);
> > char* subs(char* argStr5, char** argPtrStr6, int argInt7);
> >
> >
> > to such J code
> >
> > NB. ================================================= test.j ==
> >
> > mul=: 'mul > d f f' cdx
> > sub=: 'sub > i i i' cdx
> > subs=: 'subs > *c *c * i' cdx
>
> How does it handle typedef? suppose that for another test1.h
> typedef long L;
> typedef L UL;
> struct var {
> int a1;
> L a2;
> };
> double mul(long *, L, UL, struct var *);
>
> can it translate it to J definition without manual editing script to
> add provision for the new types?
It's up to you. The method does the dirty work of parsing
C code and presenting in XML format which you translate
in a combination of XSLT and J processing. You make decisions
like that making the processing smarter. But it does not have
to be manual.
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