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| From | Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: Parsing partial sentences |
| Date | 2017-04-29 14:57 +0000 |
| Organization | Stack Usenet News Service |
| Message-ID | <17-04-027@comp.compilers> (permalink) |
| References | <17-04-001@comp.compilers> <17-04-023@comp.compilers> <17-04-024@comp.compilers> |
On 2017-04-27, Kaz Kylheku <686-678-9105@kylheku.com> wrote: >> In a word NO. #defines are always strings even when they look like >> constants, something I have found out the hard way. There have only been >> two ways that I have successfully dealt with #defines: a preprocessor >> pass or later and much faster pipeline the processing of C source and >> add the defined definition processing into part of the source fetch >> handling. > > If we allow Pascal to be extended with a macro preprocessor, I think most interest in C->Pascal header translators is for (semi)automated translation of 3rd party library headers, not converting complete programs. This means that it cannot be considered a given that a program exists that uses all macros in the header. Estabilishing rules or heuristics to judge if a macro could be a constant would be useful though.
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Parsing partial sentences Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2017-04-03 09:57 +0200
Re: Parsing partial sentences Fernando <pronesto@gmail.com> - 2017-04-04 06:05 -0700
Re: Parsing partial sentences Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2017-04-07 11:16 -0400
Re: Parsing partial sentences George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2017-04-07 12:59 -0400
Re: Parsing partial sentences Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2017-04-07 22:24 +0200
Re: Parsing partial sentences George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2017-04-10 20:22 -0400
Re: Parsing partial sentences Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2017-04-11 10:31 +0200
Re: Parsing partial sentences Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2017-04-11 19:40 +0200
Re: Parsing partial sentences George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2017-04-11 23:05 -0400
Re: Parsing partial sentences Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2017-04-12 13:45 +0200
Re: Parsing partial sentences Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2017-04-11 10:30 +0100
Re: Parsing partial sentences Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2017-04-27 10:58 -0400
Re: Parsing partial sentences Kaz Kylheku <686-678-9105@kylheku.com> - 2017-04-27 19:08 +0000
Re: Parsing partial sentences rugxulo@gmail.com - 2017-04-28 16:32 -0700
Re: Parsing partial sentences Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2017-04-29 14:57 +0000
Re: Parsing partial sentences Kaz Kylheku <686-678-9105@kylheku.com> - 2017-04-30 16:31 +0000
Re: Parsing partial sentences Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2017-04-28 02:48 +0200
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