• Ilya Minkov (20/20) Jan 18 2003 Walter, why don't you use makeheaders?
• Walter (4/24) Jan 18 2003 It's a nice tool, but I am congenitally unable to use any tool I didn't
• Matthew Wilson (5/35) Jan 18 2003 LOL! A man after my own heart.
• Ilya Minkov (6/41) Jan 21 2003 Well, maybe writing another compiler for a better language fixing a

Ilya Minkov <midiclub 8ung.at> writes:

Walter, why don't you use makeheaders?
http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mkhdr/

It is a lightweight fast program, which eliminates the need of total.h 
and reduces recompile time drastically. Besides, it makes life easier by 
not having a need to consider #include salad - it simply makes all 
public declarations available to a set of C files, pre-sorted! Try it 
out. It should compile and work on every 32-bit ANSI C system. So far I 
have made very good experiences with it. The only adverse effect was, it 
has hidden the source of a couple of declaration mismatches, that is it 
was clear what the problem is at once, but you have to grep to find 
where the false declaration source is. A very minor problem if grep is 
inegrated into the IDE.

It also appears that the guys have also written a BISON replacement 
which is much faster and supports LALR grammars.
http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/index.html

I think it requieres makeheaders, but I guess it can be changed easily.

The source is tiny, well-commented and legible, not overbloated and 
seems to be OK. I made minor changes to makeheadres and they appeared to 
be easy. They have also written a number of other interesting things.

-i.

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

It's a nice tool, but I am congenitally unable to use any tool I didn't
write myself (why do you think I wrote a compiler in the first place? <g>).

"Ilya Minkov" <midiclub 8ung.at> wrote in message
news:b0bqlb$1dlg$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Walter, why don't you use makeheaders?
 http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mkhdr/

 It is a lightweight fast program, which eliminates the need of total.h
 and reduces recompile time drastically. Besides, it makes life easier by
 not having a need to consider #include salad - it simply makes all
 public declarations available to a set of C files, pre-sorted! Try it
 out. It should compile and work on every 32-bit ANSI C system. So far I
 have made very good experiences with it. The only adverse effect was, it
 has hidden the source of a couple of declaration mismatches, that is it
 was clear what the problem is at once, but you have to grep to find
 where the false declaration source is. A very minor problem if grep is
 inegrated into the IDE.

 It also appears that the guys have also written a BISON replacement
 which is much faster and supports LALR grammars.
 http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/index.html

 I think it requieres makeheaders, but I guess it can be changed easily.

 The source is tiny, well-commented and legible, not overbloated and
 seems to be OK. I made minor changes to makeheadres and they appeared to
 be easy. They have also written a number of other interesting things.

 -i.

"Matthew Wilson" <dmd synesis.com.au> writes:

LOL! A man after my own heart.

:)

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> wrote in message
news:b0c5jr$1mei$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 It's a nice tool, but I am congenitally unable to use any tool I didn't
 write myself (why do you think I wrote a compiler in the first place?

<g>).
 "Ilya Minkov" <midiclub 8ung.at> wrote in message
 news:b0bqlb$1dlg$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Walter, why don't you use makeheaders?
 http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mkhdr/

 It is a lightweight fast program, which eliminates the need of total.h
 and reduces recompile time drastically. Besides, it makes life easier by
 not having a need to consider #include salad - it simply makes all
 public declarations available to a set of C files, pre-sorted! Try it
 out. It should compile and work on every 32-bit ANSI C system. So far I
 have made very good experiences with it. The only adverse effect was, it
 has hidden the source of a couple of declaration mismatches, that is it
 was clear what the problem is at once, but you have to grep to find
 where the false declaration source is. A very minor problem if grep is
 inegrated into the IDE.

 It also appears that the guys have also written a BISON replacement
 which is much faster and supports LALR grammars.
 http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/index.html

 I think it requieres makeheaders, but I guess it can be changed easily.

 The source is tiny, well-commented and legible, not overbloated and
 seems to be OK. I made minor changes to makeheadres and they appeared to
 be easy. They have also written a number of other interesting things.

 -i.

Ilya Minkov <midiclub tiscali.de> writes:

Well, maybe writing another compiler for a better language fixing a 
necessity in loads of tools used in C and C++ is a more sane decision. 
Altogether with making everything better.

BTW, the absence of comments in your code sucks! I'm not very fond of 
reading code.


Walter wrote:
 It's a nice tool, but I am congenitally unable to use any tool I didn't
 write myself (why do you think I wrote a compiler in the first place? <g>).
 
 "Ilya Minkov" <midiclub 8ung.at> wrote in message
 news:b0bqlb$1dlg$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 
Walter, why don't you use makeheaders?
http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mkhdr/

It is a lightweight fast program, which eliminates the need of total.h
and reduces recompile time drastically. Besides, it makes life easier by
not having a need to consider #include salad - it simply makes all
public declarations available to a set of C files, pre-sorted! Try it
out. It should compile and work on every 32-bit ANSI C system. So far I
have made very good experiences with it. The only adverse effect was, it
has hidden the source of a couple of declaration mismatches, that is it
was clear what the problem is at once, but you have to grep to find
where the false declaration source is. A very minor problem if grep is
inegrated into the IDE.

It also appears that the guys have also written a BISON replacement
which is much faster and supports LALR grammars.
http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/index.html

I think it requieres makeheaders, but I guess it can be changed easily.

The source is tiny, well-commented and legible, not overbloated and
seems to be OK. I made minor changes to makeheadres and they appeared to
be easy. They have also written a number of other interesting things.

-i.