From: Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca>,
linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: support for C++ ?
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:21:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468112ED.7050104@knosof.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46811043.90207@freedesktop.org>
Josh,
> While a C++ parser would add significant complexity to Sparse, I would still
> prefer to integrate it rather than encouraging people to fork. I think a
> reasonable amount of code sharing would still exist between the C and C++
> code, and ideally almost all of the backend code would support both.
Experience suggests that a C++ front end is around a factor of seven
times larger than a C front end.
There are many more syntactic ambiguities in C++ that require
symbol table information to resolve (even then life can be tough).
Code sharing would be possible in the sense that if a C++ parser
were implemented it would be close to handling C out of the box.
--
Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667
Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:derek@knosof.co.uk
Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-26 2:20 support for C++ ? Mathieu Bouchard
2007-06-26 5:11 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-26 11:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-26 13:10 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-26 13:21 ` Derek M Jones [this message]
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