Re: GNU frontend modification

Rajat Singh wrote:
> 
> I am trying to modify the  GNU Pascal fronted. I have gone through GNU
> Pascal manual and  GNU Pascal internals site and this is what I have
> understood.
> 
> 1.Lexer -  I need to modify pascal-lex.l file and using flex compile it to
> lex.yy.c file.Rename this file to pascal-lex.c
> 2. Parser - I need to modify parse.y file and using bison compile it to
> parse.c file.
> 
> Now what I am supposed to do next, to make these changes reflect when I
> compile a pascal file ?
> 

Running flex and bison by hand is not needed.  Normal procedure is:

1) fetch sources (for modification it is best to fetch from git,
   but tarball will do too)
2) make sure you can build from sources (but use separate build
   directory so that sources remain clean)
3) make modifications, in your case pascal-lex.l and parse.y
4) run build, like in 2

gpc tarball contains pre-build pascal-lex.c and parse.c, but
makefiles know how to rebuild them if needed.

Note: in 4) above normally it is enough to run make, which is
faster than full build.  However, to make sure that other (and
you on different machine) can build gpc after your modification
once you are convinced that your change works it is better to
run full build.  That is, when you develop your change run
make in the same tree to quickly test it.  Once you think you
ar ready run full build to make sure that build machinery works
OK after your change.

Also, look at

http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/Testing.html

for info how to run test (note that to run only Pascal tests
you need to change to the gcc-xxx/gcc/p subdirectory of the
build tree).

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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