Re: Bison/Yacc with Objective-C ?
Re: Bison/Yacc with Objective-C ?
- Subject: Re: Bison/Yacc with Objective-C ?
- From: Thomas Wetmore <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:07 -0500
Graham,
Definitely not nonsense, and is the solution I will use unless I can find a more direct route. I have done this in the past for YACC to generate C++ on Windows systems. The headache with this solution is that the Xcode has a built-in rule that goes from YACC to C and tries to compile immediately. I will have to learn how to replace the built-in YACC rule with something else.
Thanks again for your suggestion,
Tom Wetmore
On Mar 9, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
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> On 10/03/2010, at 9:00 AM, Thomas Wetmore wrote:
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>> Yacc (and Bison) convert yacc files into C files. Instead I would like to generate Objective-C files so I can use Cocoa containers classes and NSString to get Unicode for free. I do see that bison can generate C++ instead of C. Does anyone know whether there is any version of yacc or bison that has been modified to generate Objective-C? Or if there is any other parser generator available that can generate Objective-C.
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> I haven't tried it, so this might be nonsense, but I think that YACC simply copies the emitted code from the source file to the final C file. That means that could be Objective-C code - you'd only need to change the file extension from .c to .m to compile it. As long as the emitted code is the only Objective-C and therefore not required to be parsed by YACC, I reckon it ought to work.
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> --Graham
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