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RE: [cdt-dev] JavaCC and the JJ file.

> What I would like to shoot for is that we merge the 
> NewParser1 branch into
> HEAD sometime next month so that we can ensure that we are 
> concentrating our
> efforts on the solution going forward.  A preference could be 
> provided to
> allow the user/developer to choose their parsing framework 
> for the outline
> view in order to minimize the risk regarding 1.0.2 quality.   
> 
> Not that I'm officially committing just yet (as I'm still 
> pounding through
> the ANSI C++ grammar as I write this) ... I'm just wondering 
> if anyone has
> an opinion about this strategy. 

Agree 100%. The sooner we get the new parser itto the head branch,
the sooner we can put miles on in. I also agree with you that 
scarce development time will be better spent on the new parser,
as opposed to fixing the old one.

My 0.02$ :-)

Sebastien
> 
> JohnC
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schaefer, Doug [mailto:dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: 'cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [cdt-dev] JavaCC and the JJ file.
> 
> 
> Thanks, Alain,
> 
> We'll also take a look at when we can get enough of the new 
> parser working
> to generate ICElements as well.  If this is soon, it might be 
> the better way
> to go.
> 
> Doug Schaefer
> Senior Staff Software Engineer
> Rational - the software development company
> Ottawa (Kanata), Ontario, Canada
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alain Magloire [mailto:alain@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: February 25, 2003 8:03 PM
> To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] JavaCC and the JJ file.
> 
> > 
> > There are quite a few things that the current parser 
> doesn't pick up.  
> > The one that is bugging me lately is the WINAPI and friends macros 
> > that blow
> up
> > the function they are modifying.  We need to get something 
> in for the
> April
> > delivery (can I call this 1.0.2?) to bring the quality level of the
> outline
> > view a bit higher that what we've got.
> > 
> > Alain, since we're not scheduled to release the new parser 
> until after 
> > April, would you be interested in committing the work you have done 
> > with
> the
> > old IBM parser?  Or fire a patch at me so that I could 
> polish it off 
> > and
> get
> > it in?  Then, we should also be able to add in the K&R 
> param decls as 
> > well (hopefully easy...).
> 
> I will take a look at it again, seems so long. To get it 
> going, I wrote a
> basic C Preprocessor(although evaluation of expression was 
> still missing)
> and moved things around to generate the ICElement. Let me 
> see, if I can dig
> this out again.
> 
> 
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