On 4/21/07, Donald Bruce Stewart
chak:
Duncan Coutts wrote:
If anyone is interested in developing a Language.C library, I've just completed a full C parser which we're using in c2hs.
It covers all of C99 and all of the GNU C extensions that I have found used in practise, including the __attribute__ annotations. It can successfully parse the whole Linux kernel and all of the C files in all the system packages on my Gentoo installation.
Great work!
Using this as a basis for a Language.C would be a really worthwile project.
I think people should be very interested in this.
The ability to easily manipulate and generate C would quickly insert Haskell into another useful niche. There must *surely* be real money in writing nice Haskell programs that optimise/analyse/refactor/generate C code...
Unfortunately the niche is not empty. There is an ocaml library called cil which is supposed to be pretty sweet for manipulating C code. But I still think a Haskell library would be a very good idea, and perhaps one can look at cil for inspiration. cil can be found here: http://hal.cs.berkeley.edu/cil/ Cheers, Josef