[Opencxx-users] [opencxx] Re: Introspector Project and OpenC++ (was "problems with compiling for gctest.exe")

[James M. D. <mdu...@ya...>]

--- Francois Taiani <fra...@la...> wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> I went on the introspector project page (which you have a link on in
> your signature). It seems very interesting, in particular for people
> interested in open compilation.
> 
Dear Francois,
Thanks for writing.

I have on my open task list for OpenC++ to help create a better API
between the walker and the Tree. 
(That with stefan as well)
http://sourceforge.net/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=45429&group_id=40789&group_project_id=16305

To do this, we need to have a better explicit model of what the parser
returns, a detail model of the asts.

I have been working on that as part of the gcc introspector project.

We have a simple model now of the core C from the gcc
1. I have extracted the code of the c compiler into XML using a patched
tree dumper
2. I modeled the attributes and node types by statistical analysis (of
the example data)
3. I have fed this model into a meta-architecture for generation of
SQL, Perl, Java and other classes
4. I have written feeds from the gcc to read the XML and instanciate
these new classes.
5. I have boostrapped the gcc itself, and translated the entire
sourcecode into a huge postgres database.

I have reviewed the C# .net ECMA reflection standard and the Asp.net
codedoms. Also The java reflection model and the TreeCC model from the
pnet project.

Now I am working with a small team to create a new interface into the
gcc,
using the librdf /redland application framework. This will present the
internal meta data of the gcc to a C,Perl, Python, Java, tcl and Ruby. 

The data storage will be available as a internal memory storage, as an
BerkleyDB and as XML/RDf  or notation3.

Right now you can join the testing effort, we need people to help test
the various language interfaces.

When this is ready, we can also replace the openc++ parser with the GCC
as an option.
and before you say, no because of licensing, wait and see 
1.  GCC can use openC++, the openC++ cannot use gcc.
2.  You can use the GCC in openc++ if you use it under the gpl.

I hope the introspector will provide the next generation of data
transfer layer between the compiler and the people who need it. The
clients of openc++ are on my target list of potential customers.

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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