[Haskell-cafe] Module for parsing C (pre-processed header files only)?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:

> magnus:
> >    Is there such a beast out there?
> >
> >    If this were a list on some OO language I'd ask for something that
> created
> >    an AST and then offered an API based around a visitor pattern.
> >
> >    The pre-processor (platform specific most likely, but could be cpphs
> of
> >    course) would be run prior to the tool I'm considering writing.
>  After
> >    that I only need access to declarations of C functions and
> definitions of
> >    types (structs, enums, other typedefs).
> >
> >    I had a quick look at the code in c2hs yesterday, but found it a
> little
> >    hard to make heads or tails of it without some guidance, so I
> couldn't
> >    tell whether it would be suitable.  Would it?
> >
> >    Any help or pointers appreciated.
>
> I think the main option for parsing C now is the c2hs parser -- there's
> a summer of code project to wrap it up as a suitable C manipulation,
> printing and parsing library, so we should see a good standalone
> solution in a few months.


Will it be delivered with good documentation? ;-)

This is /very/ interesting for me and my job (what I'm talking about above
is not for work though).  I would love to see something that would allow me
to spend more time using Haskell while being paid for it :-)

/M
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