Re: [pygccxml-development] C type normalization utility function?

[Gustavo C. <gjc...@gm...>]

2008/6/10 Roman Yakovenko <rom...@gm...>:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Gustavo Carneiro <gjc...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > As seen in
> >
> >     https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238455
> >
> > I am getting problems in PyBindGen related to differences in types like
> > "char*" vs "char *", also the position of the 'const' keyword may change,
> > etc.
> >
> > I am looking for some robust, pure python code to parse C types and
> extract
> > features from it, or produce a canonical type string, so that I can use
> it
> > PyBindGen.  Does something like this exist in pygccxml
>
> No, but we can discuss such addition to pygccxml. I think this is a
> nice & useful feature.
>
> > or elsewhere that I can steal? :-)
>
> May be from here: http://code.google.com/p/cppclean/wiki/InternalDesign


Thanks for the link!  This code looks nice, if excessive for what I want.
Using and adapting this code to parse C types is now on my medium priority
TODO list.  If I get something useful out of it, I'll post here the result.

Thanks,

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert