Effective Utilization of Existing C Header Files in other languages with different syntaxes

• HIRAISHI Tasuku

  Dept. of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

• YASUGI Masahiro

  Dept. of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

• YUASA Taiichi

  Dept. of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 既存Cヘッダファイルの構文の異なる言語での有効利用

Abstract

We are developing S-expression based C languages, SC languages, and their language system, which supports transformation-based language extension. When we need SC header files corresponding to existing C header files, translating header files into SC by hand will need undesirable implementation cost. So in this research we have implemented a C-to-SC translator. In some cases such a translation is not obvious. In particular, it is sometimes impossible to translate #define macro definitions for the C preprocessor into %defmacro or %defconstant constructs for the SC preprocessor mainly because of their syntactical difference. This paper discusses the limitations of the translation and our pragmatic and reasonable solutions to them. Some of the ideas of our solutions are applicable to translation between other languages.

Journal

• Computer Software

  Computer Software 23 (2), 225-238, 2006

  Japan Society for Software Science and Technology

Details

• CRID: 1390001204737593856
• NII Article ID: 130004892059
• DOI: 10.11309/jssst.23.2_225
• ISSN: 02896540
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed