NAME Text::CPP - A full C Preprocessor in XS SYNOPSIS use Text::CPP; my $reader = new Text::CPP( Language => CLK_GNUC99, Builtins => { foo => 'this', bar => 'that', }, ); $reader->read("file.c"); while (my $token = $reader->token) { print "Token: $token\n"; } $reader->data->{MyKey} = $MyData; DESCRIPTION A fast C preprocessor in XS. This does not require an external C preprocessor, and will not fork() or exec() any external process. USAGE The following methods have been implemented, allowing the use of this module as a pure C preprocessor, or as a lexer for a C, C++ or Assembler-like language. new Text::CPP(...) Takes a hash or hashref with the following possible keys: Language Defines the source language to preprocess and/or tokenise. It may be any of: CLK_GNUC89 - GNU C89 CLK_GNUC99 - GNU C99 CLK_STDC89 - Standard C89 CLK_STDC94 - Standard C94 CLK_STDC99 - Standard C99 CLK_GNUCXX - GNU C++ CLK_CXX98 - Standard C++ 98 CLK_ASM - Assembler Options A hashref of options for the preprocessor. Valid entries are given with alternative forms (from GNU cpp) in brackets. Define (-D): array of strings Strings should be of the form NAME=VALUE. Undef (-U): array of strings DiscardComments (-C): boolean DiscardCommentsInMacroExp (-CC): boolean PrintIncludeNames (-H): boolean NoLineCommands (-P): boolean WarnComments (-Wcomment -Wcomments): boolean WarnDeprecated (-Wdeprecated): boolean WarningsAreErrors (-Werror): boolean WarnImport (-Wimport): boolean WarnMultichar (-Wmultichar): boolean WarnSystemHeaders (-Wsystem-headers): boolean Ignore errors in system header files. WarnTraditional (-Wtraditional): boolean WarnTrigraphs (-Wtrigraphs): boolean WarnUnusedMacros (-Wunused-macros): boolean Pedantic (-pedantic): boolean PedanticErrors (-pedantic-errors): boolean Implies, and overrides, Pedantic. Remap (-remap): boolean Deal with some brokennesses of MSDOS. Untested. Trigraphs (-trigraphs): boolean Traditional (-traditional): boolean NoWarnings (-w): boolean IncludePrefix (-iprefix): string SysRoot (-isysroot): string Include (-include): array of strings Include the specified files before reading the main file to be processed. IncludeMacros (-imacros): array of strings Include the specified files before reading the main file to be processed. Output from preprocessing these files is discarded. Files specified by IncludeMacros are processed before files specified by Include. IncludePath (-I): array of strings This include path is searched first. SystemIncludePath (-isystem): array of strings Specify the standard system include path, searched second. AfterIncludePath (-idirafter): array of strings This include path is searched after the system include path. Builtins A hashref of predefined macros. The values must be strings or integers. Macros in this hash will be defined before preprocessing starts. $text = $reader->token ($text, $type, $flags) = $reader->token Return the next available preprocessed token. Some tokens are not stringifiable. These include tokens of type CPP_MACRO_ARG, CPP_PADDING and CPP_EOF. Text::CPP returns a dummy string in the 'text' field for these tokens. Tokens of type CPP_EOF should never actually be returned. @tokens = $reader->tokens Preprocess and return a list of tokens. This is approximately equivalent to: push(@tokens, $_) while ($_ = $reader->token); $reader->type($type) Return a human readable name for a token type, as returned by $reader->token. $reader->data Returns a hashref in which user data may be stored by subclasses. This hashref is created with a new Text::CPP object, and is ignored for all functional purposes. The user may do with it as he wishes. $reader->errors In scalar context, returns the fatal error count. In list context, returns a list of warnings and errors encountered by the preprocessor. Thus scalar(@errors) >= $errors, since @errors will also contain the warnings. BUGS This documentation is incomplete. There are many important functions in the source which are not yet documented. It is not possible to instantiate multiple Text::CPP objects, since the underlying library uses many global variables. C99 may not implement variadic macros correctly according to the ISO standard. I must check this. If anyone knows, please tell me. It is not yet possible to specify a list of include directories. The code is still tied into gcc in some places. Files like prefix.c can be removed entirely when this is cleaned up. The following options are not yet handled. -M* -std -ansi -foperator-names -fshow-column -ftabstop CAVEATS Memory for hash tables, token names, etc is only freed when the reader is destroyed. Assertions are a deprecated feature, and thus the -A flag is not supported. It does not seem necessary to support the following flags: -x -iwithprefix -iwithprefixbefore -fpreprocessed TODO Include lists Dependency output Support remaining options Lots more tests Remaining callbacks Virtual file support Multiplicity SUPPORT Mail the author at AUTHOR Shevek CPAN ID: SHEVEK cpan@anarres.org http://www.anarres.org/projects/ COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2002 Shevek. All rights reserved. This program is free software; but parts of it have been borrowed from, or based on, parts of the GNU C Compiler version 3.3.2. You may therefore redistribute and/or modify this code under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. I am unable to release this code under the usual Perl license because that license includes the Artistic License, and I cannot rerelease GPL code under the Artistic License. Sorry. The full text of the license can be found in the COPYING file included with this module. SEE ALSO perl(1).