Re: VCG visualization

[Satya]

The current CVS Bison will generate dot files instead of VCG files. This
change was made some time ago (
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2006-10/msg00047.html), but
has not yet found it's way into a release version.

Satya

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Aaron Jackson <address@hidden>
wrote:

>
> On Apr 26, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Derek M Jones wrote:
>
>  Paulo,
> >
> >  I am on a Mac and I would like to know if anybody has any suggestion
> > > > > on a free software to visualize vcg files resulting from bison
> > > > > output
> > > > > or convert them to a bitmap file.
> > > > >
> > > > >   I find graphviz useful for this kind of thing
> > > >  http://www.graphviz.org/
> > > >
> > > >  Hello Derek,
> > > I do know and use graphviz regularly for my graph work but I thought
> > > it only worked with the dot format. Is there a way to convert VCG to
> > > dot or is there a way to open VCG natively which I am not aware of?
> > >
> >
> > It has always struck me that it ought to be possible to write an
> > awk script to create a workable translation, but I have never tried
> > to write one.
> >
> > There do seem to be some tools out there (never tried any of them)
> > http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/~sander/html/gsvcg1.html<http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/%7Esander/html/gsvcg1.html>
> >
>
> I found yaccviso 
> http://lo-res.org/~aaron/yaccviso/<http://lo-res.org/%7Eaaron/yaccviso/>.  It 
> looks directly at the .y file and generates a dot file.  It won't
> compile on your mac without a small change:
>
> ---------------------8<---------------------------------------------
> --- malloc.h.orig       2008-04-26 15:43:45.000000000 -0400
> +++ malloc.h    2008-04-26 15:44:00.000000000 -0400
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>  * descr.:
>  */
>
> -#include <malloc.h>
> +#include <stdlib.h>
>  #include "global.h"
>
>  typedef struct memmap memmap;
> -----------------------8<-------------------------------------------
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
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