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From: ham@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Peter R. Ham)
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Subject: protoize and parsing C and C++ headers to Scheme
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Date: 30 May 90 07:07:09 GMT
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I'm considering writing a  program that parsed C and
C++ header files and maybe .c files and generated a Scheme description
of them probably in Joel Bartlett's cdecl notation in order to 
facilitate producing interface code for foreign function calling 
interfaces from Scheme. Hopefully, this would help to automate the
process. Is this similar to what Ron Guillmette's "protoize" program 
does using gcc and g++? 

Anybody thought of doing this? If I want to code in Scheme and interface
to Scheme, maybe this would help without being to much work. I would like
to try and make a Scheme->C interface to InterViews (C++ based UII toolkit)
this way?

Impossible? Maybe I could get this to work on some stylized subset of
C++ and C?

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