Re: C question (was: Ada & C)

[Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>]

dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:
> 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. 

Indeed.  The biggest problem is typedef names.  When a typedef is in
scope, the name of the typedef has to be treated as a distinct token,
not as an identifier -- unless it's a new declaration of the same
name.  Thus you have to have feedback from the symbol table to the
parser.  Ick.

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