Re: Parse::RecDescent demo fails hello.c !?

>>>>> "kynn" == kynn  <[email protected]> writes:

kynn> [ I originally posted this in comp.lang.perl.modules.  A responder
kynn>   suggested I sent it to this address. ]

kynn> I'm trying to learn how to use Parse::RecDescent, so I tried the
kynn> script demo_Cgrammar.pl that comes with the Parse::RecDescent
kynn> distribution with Kernighan & Ritchie's canonical hello.c as input.
kynn> Here's what I get:

kynn>   $ cat hello.c
kynn>   #include <stdio.h>

kynn>   main()
kynn>   {
kynn>       printf("Hello, world.\n");
kynn>   }

And the answer you got there was "CPP is meta to C grammar, so the
C grammar parser chokes on that".  You need to preprocess your
file, then feed the output of that to the C grammar.

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