[antlr-interest] Can I use ANTLR to build a tree from C code
shivatk
shivatk at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Apr 3 11:09:48 PST 2003
Hi all,
My name is Shiva. I have joined the group today. I have been working
on 'Program Analysis', 'Reverse Engineering', 'Migration and
restructuring tools' and similar language processing stuffs for the
last 4 years. In all the areas the initial step is the same - build a
tree from the source code. So, whether the code is in C, or in C++,
or in COBOL we build the tree first. To do this we use 'yacc' based
parser and our own internal tool to build the AST. Most of the
actions in the parser are written to build the tree and capture other
informations like line number, line pos, filename etc.
With regards to this I have a question to post.
Can I use ANTLR to do the same? I mean, can I use ANTLR to parse and
build an AST out of C code? Will I be able to capture the line num,
column position inormation in the tree nodes? And, will I be able to
create associations between a tree node for a variable to its
declaration in the symbol table?
Hoping for an early reply from the group.
Shiva
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