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

From: Andreas Sæbjørnsen (andreas.saebjoernsen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-07 18:31:51

The project is in the process of being released for open download, but for
now it is only available to people collaborating with the ROSE team. A
preliminary link can be found at:
http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/rose/
but this is an incomplete webpage and the final project will probably be
hosted elsewhere.

Andreas

On 11/5/05, Hartmut Kaiser <hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
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