solution parse #include directive

[Vijayaraghavan Jagannathan]

Thanx mathew, I will look into flex and try to solve the problem.

Thanx in advance.

JVRN.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Palmer" <address@hidden>
To: "Vijayaraghavan Jagannathan" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Hi


> Two things:
>
> 1) Keep responses on list, it keeps the archives in order and lets other
> people participate in the discussion, and
>
> 2) Turn off the fscking HTML.
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Vijayaraghavan Jagannathan wrote:
>
> > 1. A preliminary level parsing that parses only the #include section can
> > be written.  It will identify the files.  With this info, the files can
be
> > merged together. Thus a single source input file could be formed outside
> > the context of parsing functionality.  The resultant source file can be
> > sent to the parse function.
> >
> > 2. Try Bison to parse a stream !  i.e. read all the files and form an
> > image of the syntax in the memory.  This stream could then be passed to
> > the yyparse of bison.  This is a bit difficult and working on it.
> > Moreover I am working on a GUI that will debug the source.  Hence
streams
> > arent efficient way to handle it.
>
> Use flex, and it's marvellous ability to have multiple input sources going
> at once.  In fact, I think the manual actually goes about 95% of the way
to
> solving your problem for you.
>
> If using flex is out of the question, then rewrite it's buffer switch
> functionality yourself.
>
> And get rid of the TOFU.  Standard quoting was invented for a reason.
>
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Matthew Palmer
> >   To: Vijayaraghavan Jagannathan
> >   Cc: Bison GNU Help
> >   Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:03 PM
> >   Subject: Re: Hi
> >
> >
> >   On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Vijayaraghavan Jagannathan wrote:
> >
> >   > Hi all, I have the following requirement.  Can anyone suggest a
method by
> >   > which this can be solved.
> >
> >   Boy, this reeks of an assignment.  Have you even attempted it
yourself?
>
>
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