Re: [Lxr-dev] VHDL support and other stuff
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From: Robin T. <Rob...@te...> - 2001-11-15 08:07:55
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Hi Malcom, Malcolm Box wrote: > I guess you've already looked at them, but a websearch did find some > other parsers, including a Perl one at > http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Hardware/ though it sounds *slow*. Yup, the language definition is so huge and complex that a single small entity with a dummy arch takes 2+ minutes to parse. > There's a VHDL compiler at Alliance, http://www-asim.lip6.fr/alliance/ > which is GPL'ed and thus might have a grammer that you could rip out. Hmm, "my" parser was actually derived from an Alliance toolkit way back. I'll have a second look. > And there's VAUL from http://www.freehdl.seul.org/frontend.html which > claims to be a flex/bison job. I looked at the VAUL. It's a big thing and clutched togethed from several projects. I expected the job ripping and cleaning the parser to be bigger than starting over. Then I found the current skeleton... Thanks anyway. Robin. -- ASIC Design Engineer Tellabs Denmark A/S Direct: +45 4473 2942 rob...@te... |