Re: C question (was: Ada & C)

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:38:47 GMT, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
>> [c2ada not working well]
>Hmmm. This sounds like a good application for OpenToken. It currently
>only ships with Java and Ada syntaxes, but a C syntax shouldn't be too
>tough for someone with an ANSI C standard handy to cobble together. I
>actually thought C would be the *first* syntax someone submitted, but up
>to now no one seems to have been that interested in C. :-)
ANSI C's a bit of a bear to parse, or so I've heard. 

>lalr(1) parsing capability will be included in the upcomming release. I
>have it in the source cleanup and documentation phase right now.
Oh, cool! I'll stop my hacking on Ayacc to get it compile clean, and
wait for OpenToken.

>I suppose an easier idea would be to just run c2ada through c2ada. :-)
Unfortunetly, c2ada mainly works on header files, which is what's really
useful (especially if you listen to Robert Dewar.) It also depends on the
whole of Python being compiled in, which is one of the reasons it's hard
to build.

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