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GCC unpluggedGCC unpluggedPosted Nov 20, 2007 15:07 UTC (Tue) by dcoutts (guest, #5387)In reply to: GCC unplugged by Nelson Parent article: GCC unplugged
What are some meaningful tasks people are doing with GCC-XML? FFI tools for other high level languages. For example c2hs is a tool that reads .h files and generates Haskell code that imports the foreign C functions at the correct type. This guarantees cross-language type safety which is a pretty big deal. At the moment c2hs has to use it's own hand-written C parser that understands all the GNU C extensions. This was not easy to make and it's not easy to maintain. Having a proper intermediate format generated by gcc would allow us to parse GNU C code easily and providing additional things like correct calculation of sizes of C types etc.
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