Re: [Boost-users] [boost::wave] Hooks not called for conditionals

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost::wave] Hooks not called for conditionals
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-27 17:00:06

> I am currently working on a project that uses Wave to pre-process and
> tokenize C/C++ code, but I am not getting everything that I expect from
> the preprocessing hooks. We use the preprocessing hooks to extract data
> about false-branches, macro calls and macro expansions so this is a major
> roadblock for us.
> 
> I am trying to extract information about the true and false branch of
>    #if 1
>    int foo;
>    #elif 0
>    float foo;
>    #else
>    struct { } foo;
>    #endif
> The first #if is seen by 'found_directive'.  If that returns false, then I
> get
>    #ifint foo;
>    #eliffloat foo;
>    #else
>    struct { } foo;
>    #endif
> Note that it skips the newline after the #if and #elif and that it doesn't
> reveal their conditions.  If it returns true, then
> 'evaluated_conditional_expression also gets called and I get
>    #if  1 // [Taken]
>    int foo;
>    #elif0
>    float foo;
>    struct { } foo;
> Without the #else directive, the #endif directive, and the whitespace
> between #elif and it's condition.

I started to look at your example and I realized there are definitely some inconsistencies esp. wrt calling the may_skip_token hook for newline characters following a conditional pp directive. These seem to be bugs I will look at asap. Moreover, there is a bug preventing Wave from calling the skipped_token hook for 'inactive' conditional pp directive tokens (this one I fixed in SVN). If you used the SVN version now, returning 'false' from the 'found_directive' should give you at least the missing directives.

Please give me a day or two to fully understand what's currently going on.

Regards Hartmut

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> 
> My problem is that the false branch is not seen by either function (the
> endif also has trouble sometimes). I therefore expected all tokens in the
> false branch to be processed by 'may_skip_whitespace' or 'skipped_token',
> but that is not the case.
> 
> Could you please help me to find our how to get the tokens from the false
> branch of the conditional expression using the preprocessing hooks?
> 
> I've attached my wave test program and a sample input file.
> 
> Thanks.