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From: Graham D Parrington <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Parsing C++ headers?
Date: 18 Apr 1996 00:32:28 -0400
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John Mitchell <[e-mail]> writes:
>I want to parse C++ header files, and extract information about the
>contained classes and their interface. A yacc-able grammar for this
>type of problem ( or superset of it, as for compilation) would be a
>great help. I'm aware of a grammar for C++ 2.0 out there - is there a
>later version supporting templates?

You could always look at the C++ stub generator that's part of Arjuna.
That has to read C++ headers and pick out classes, determine
inheritence etc in order to be able to reproduce equivalent classes
that do RPC.  It has a yacc parser for a grammer that supports
templates to some extent (it is not complete w.r.t the current ANSI
spec but it does a fair job).  The stub system is described in Usenix
Computer Systems Vol 8 No 2.  You can get Arjuna source and papers
(including the stub system) from http://arjuna.ncl.ac.uk

Have fun!

Graham
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