Re: Looking for a C -> C gcc compiler

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From: Carl Edman
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1990 07:22

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In article <11828@spool.cs.wisc.edu> bart@romano.cs.wisc.edu (Bart Miller) writes:
   Has anyone produced a gcc compiler that takes C as input and outputs
   C?

   This sounds rather strange, but I have several applications where I
   want to annotate C code.  The annotations require type and other symbol
   table information.

   If you have such (or know of someone who does), please send mail.  Thanks

What you really need isn't a reflective auto-transpiler (to coin a
phrase, which - I'm sure - will be in common usage soon :-) but a
C-parser. I'd advise you to start and have a look at lex and yacc (or
, better, their gnu-equivalents flex and bison (source available from
prep.ai.mit.edu). Then you merely take the C-skeleton which (if I
remember correctly) is included in the gcc distribution and you are
ready to go.

        Carl Edman


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From: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a C -> C gcc compiler
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