Re: [Opencxx-users] Preserve comments and layout

[Grzegorz J. <ja...@ac...>]

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>>From: Iwan Birrer [mailto:ib...@co...]
>>Sent: November 1, 2004 12:06
> 
> 
>>Is it possible to transform C/C++ source code in a way that 
>>the layout of
>>the original source code is preserved? Or is it possble to parse and
>>anylize code while the layout information is available is the AST.
> 
> 
> The layout of the original code is preserved. All changes you apply to
> the parse tree are local and don't affect the code outside the scope
> of the modified nodes.
> 
> However, preprocessing is a separate stage that is delegated
> from 'occ' 

occ2

 > down to an external tool. I don't think comments are currently
> preserved when the preprocessor is invoked that way. If you need this
> you may want to preprocess the file yourself (using 'gcc -E -C' for
> example) and then invoke 'occ' on the result.
> But I could be wrong. Grzegorz ?

Right modulo 'occ2'.

BR
Grzegorz