On 4/21/07, Donald Bruce Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
chak:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
> >If anyone is interested in developing a Language.C library, I've just
> >completed a full C parser which we're using in c2hs.
> >
> >It covers all of C99 and all of the GNU C extensions that I have found
> >used in practise, including the __attribute__ annotations. It can
> >successfully parse the whole Linux kernel and all of the C files in all
> >the system packages on my Gentoo installation.
>
> Great work!
>
> Using this as a basis for a Language.C would be a really worthwile project.
>
I think people should be very interested in this.
The ability to easily manipulate and generate C would quickly insert
Haskell into another useful niche. There must *surely* be real money
in writing nice Haskell programs that optimise/analyse/refactor/generate
C code...
Unfortunately the niche is not empty. There is an ocaml library called
cil which is supposed to be pretty sweet for manipulating C code. But
I still think a Haskell library would be a very good idea, and perhaps
one can look at cil for inspiration.
cil can be found here:
http://hal.cs.berkeley.edu/cil/
Cheers,
Josef
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