Re: CONS specs update?

On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:26 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > - are there other parser generators than the lex and yacc families? I
ASN.1 parser generators generate code which parses data structures, for=20
example. Analogically, an XML tool may generate binding from an XML Schem=
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Popular target languages for this kind of thing are C, C++ and Java, but =
I'll=20
bet there's more...

> > We should provide an interface to add such processors, as the main is=
sue
> > is that some of them don't actually have a result file, but modify an
> > existing one (so we can't treat them as normal steps in the build
> > process).
> Ideally, though, I'd prefer to treat them as separate steps. I don't
> like the idea of a file modified in-place (i.e., processingtool.pl
> reads in abc.c and writes a modified version replacing abc.c).
Then prepare to build across directories - there are steps (adding
a key to a .NET DLL, for example) which *must not* change the name of the=
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file.

=09Bye
=09=09Vasek



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