probably the best C++ parser...

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 01 July 2005 17:01, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> ...you can find is gcc, but did you know gccxml
> (http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Index.html) ? It's basically the real gcc, but
> it doesn't produce machine instructions, but an xml file describing the
> source file.
> So you get
> -all functions
> -all variables
> -all parameters for functions
> -the locations where the functions are declared (file and line number)
> etc. in a machine-readable format.

Here's a very simple example:

----------8<-----------8<--------------8<-----------

struct EmptyClass {};

int a_function(float f, EmptyClass e)
{
}

int main(void)
{
  return 0;
}

----------8<-----------8<--------------8<-----------

and the resulting xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<GCC_XML>
  <Namespace id="_1" name="::" members="_2 _3 _4 "/>
  <Function id="_2" name="main" returns="_5" context="_1" location="f0:8"/>
  <Function id="_3" name="a_function" returns="_5" context="_1" 
location="f0:4">
    <Argument name="f" type="_6"/>
    <Argument name="e" type="_4"/>
  </Function>
  <Struct id="_4" name="EmptyClass" context="_1" location="f0:1" members="_7 
_8 " bases=""/>
  <FundamentalType id="_5" name="int"/>
  <FundamentalType id="_6" name="float"/>
  <Constructor id="_7" name="EmptyClass" context="_4" location="f0:1">
    <Argument name="_ctor_arg" type="_9"/>
  </Constructor>
  <Constructor id="_8" name="EmptyClass" context="_4" location="f0:1"/>
  <ReferenceType id="_9" type="_4c"/>
  <File id="f0" name="example1.cxx"/>
</GCC_XML>

Alex
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