[antlr-interest] Question: ANTLR and LLVM ... + Clang

Ruslan Zasukhin ruslan_zasukhin at valentina-db.com
Sun Jun 19 07:05:35 PDT 2011


On 6/19/11 5:35 AM, "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:

>> On this page very good explained how C++ FrontEnd is bigger
>> of parser
>> 
>>     http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/FrontEnds/CppFrontEnd.html
>> 
>> 
>> So again, if we have task to proceed C++ sources, we may choose between:
>> 
>> 1)  ANTLR and develop or use some C++ grammar,
>>       then spend time on (all/some) features describe on above page
> 
> If you are planning to write a C++ compiler, yes.  But why write one,
> when a number of freely available ones already exist?  Clang, GCC, etc.

No no.

We not going develop own compiler.

We need parse C++ sources, and extract different kind info from that.
Then use that info for different tasks ...

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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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