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

[benedikth]

Magnus Therning schrieb:
> 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?
Hi Markus,
the C parser in c2hs is able to parse preprocessed C and build an AST 
for you. As c2hs also needs to extract function declarations and type 
definitions, there is also code to do that.

Actually I applied for soc project to prepare a more general library 
from c2hs' code base, which would also provide what you are asking for.

Right now, you can download the source code and have a look at 
c2hs/c/tests/CCWrapper.hs on how to invoke to parser, at c2hs/c/CAST.hs 
for the syntax tree datatypes, c2hs/c/CTrav.hs for syntax tree traversal 
and in gen/GenBind.hs to see how c2hs uses this functionality.

best regards, benedikt