Re: [Boost-users] [Wave] extracting preprocessinggrammarandcommentsfrom sourcefile

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-05 17:15:13

Andreas Sæbjørnsen wrote:

> Thank you very much. This is really excellent work, and for
> us it is really useful. We are making an open source BSD
> license style tool called ROSE for easily building C/C++
> translators which takes the source code as input and outputs
> source code. Our tool understand the C/C++ syntax, unlike
> normal compilers it can understand the syntax of a library
> and you can easily work within the AST to analyze and change
> the AST. The aim of the tool is scientific computing and
> especially optimization of code which uses high level
> abstractions, but the tool is general and can be applied to a
> lot of software engineering problems.

Do you have a link?

> Since our intermediate representation is an AST and our
> frontend is a compiler frontend we lost some information
> about the  part of the preprocessor directives which is
> evaluated as negative, we had knowledge about the macro
> declarations but no knowledge about the macros calls and also
> no simple solution to some details about how many digits the
> floating point values is declared with in the code (we handle
> the floating point value as value not string, but now we will
> probably have both). It seems like we are now able to extract
> this information using Wave and that is excellent, but we are
> yet to hook it up to our tool. So expect us to use Wave on
> some of the most advanced C/C++ codes out there. :)

Nice to hear. Thanks!

Regards Hartmut