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@@ -66,3 +66,21 @@ A. I don't know yet. I originally thought it would be LGPL, but I'm people can write back-ends for it without having to make those back-ends available under the OSL. + +Q. Does it really parse C? + +A. Yeah, well... It parses a fairly complete subset of "extended C" as + defined by gcc. HOWEVER, since I don't believe in K&R syntax for + function declarations or in giving automatic integer types, it + doesn't do that. If you don't give types to your variables, they + won't have any types, and you can't use them. + + Similarly, it will be very unhappy about undeclared functions, + rather than just assuming they have type "int". + + Note that a large rationale for me doing this project is for type + following, which to some degree explains why the thing is type-anal + and refuses to touch the old-style pre-ANSI non-typed (or weakly + typed) constructs. Maybe somebody else who is working on projects + where pre-ANSI C makes sense might be more inclined to care about + ancient C. It's open source, after all. Go wild. |