Re: Light-weight GNUstep distribution

[Helge Hess]

Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> > Problem is, that to write such a preprocessor you need to implement a
> > full ANSI-C parser which is not exactly trivial ... Maybe one could use
> > LCC as a basis.
> FWIW, I once wrote a mostly complete c parser using gsantlr (it should
> handle all the interesting, ie. tricky, parts :). Adapting it to work as
> a preprocessor probably wouldn't be very difficult. If anyone is
> seriously interested in doing this, I could clean it up a bit and make
> it available.

Oh, you are right. ANTLR actually provides a full GNU C parser by itself:

  http://www.antlr.org/grammars/cgram

It's probably not too difficult to extend that to Objective-C, I'm not sure.

Helge
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