Re: [boost] [transact] transaction language macros (was: Re: [transact] code in sandbox)

Subject: Re: [boost] [transact] transaction language macros (was: Re: [transact] code in sandbox)
From: vicente.botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-07 07:53:45

Hi,
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Subject: Re: [boost] [transact] transaction language macros (was: Re: [transact] code in sandbox)

> 
> hi again,
> 
> another thing, are you experienced with the various parsing libraries  
> of boost?

No, I have made only some toy examples with Spirit long time ago.

> I know that they're not capable of analyzing C++ code, but it seems to  
> me that the code transformation required for our little language  
> extension is fairly simple.
>
> boost has compliant preprocessor, so macros aren't a problem.
> the most complicated thing would be to detect if a transaction is in a  
> user-loop or not, so the grammar would have to be able to read  
> for/while/... loops and correctly parse c++ scopes.
> does anything like that already exist?

To do something like that I will use LLVM that gives already this possibility.
Of course starting to use LLVM will be not easy, but will open much more possibilities than a specific parsing.

Best,
Vicente