[antlr-interest] Re: thank you sir

[Terence Parr]

On Oct 23, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Desai Nishitkumar Ashokkumar wrote:

> Hello sir,
>            After running preprocessor manually, preprocessod code  
> is different (not in semantic but syntatic) from original code. And  
> if I convert this preprocessod code to c++ code (without classes,  
> only compatible to g++) such that it is compile by g++ compiler  
> then this translated code is also without any macros (preprocessor  
> statement) but that I dont want. I only want to do is making C code  
> compile by g++ compiler. And this I want to do automatically and  
> dont want to change unnecessary codes.

Hi.  This is a standard problem.  Preprocessors can render the output  
messy, but w/o using preproc, the input is often not valid C code.

> If I manually first do preprocessing then I think it ll not  
> fulfilled my goal.
> Actually I want to make linux kernel compilable by g++. If I  
> manually apply preprocessor on that and then translate it to c++  
> then translated code ll be very big. bcz kernel has lots of macros  
> used.

C++ is C so I'm not sure you have a problem with anything except the  
io libraries and such; still the Clib should still work with C++ right?

Ter