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- From: tek@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Ted Kim (Random Dude))
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Sun IDL front-end?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.193629.26860@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 19:36:29 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.171845.28417@cs.ucla.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep2.171845.28417@cs.ucla.edu> tek@pram.cs.ucla.edu, I wrote:
- > ...
- > At Object World, SunSoft announced a [IDL] compiler front end,
- > available on the Internet, royalty-free, to encourage people
- > to "build to the (OMG) standard," ...
-
-
- I called SunSoft and found out that the IDL front-end is not quite out
- yet. When it comes out in a few weeks, it will be announced in OMG's
- "First Class" magazine and probably in the comp.object newsgroup. It
- will be available in a few weeks through the OMG server by e-mail or
- ftp.
-
- The IDL front-end is essentially the skeleton of a IDL to programming
- language compiler. The basis of the front-end is YACC/LEX. It parses
- the IDL, does syntax checking and the like and returns the syntax
- tree. Its up to you to do the backend to generate code in the target
- language binding. I am not sure how much semantic checking it does.
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- -ted
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