3rd Week results: a new parser scaffold

As the oil parser’s source code is not free software, my new objective is to get an unfettered one.

The OSEK Specification (the website is linked on my blogroll) provides all information necessary to write a parser for OIL, so I’ve started to write a new parser in order to replace the deadly SG.exe.

About the code:

• It was arranged that the parser would have been written in Python. I’ve written some simple parsing code by using yappy, but I got frustrated, despite I love Python. In brief I’m writing it in C using bison as parser generator;
• I need to manage a fair amount of similar data (for tokens management, by example), thus I’ve decided to lean my code on glib. By doing so I’ll get useful structure (like hashtable) keeping my code portable;
• I’ll try to keep the design enough flexible to be used for any kind of OSEK implementation.

About OIL grammar:

• I will modify slightly the provided grammar in order to semplify it, but keeping it complying with the standard.

About code management:

• I should upload the code on some svn server.