[aspectc-user] Compiling an existing pure C project with AspectC++ using Eclipse or manually

[Olaf Spinczyk]

Hi!

I'm sorry, but it would take you a few hours/days of manually turning 8cc into
C++-compliant code before you can compile it with ac++.

The problem is that not every valid C program is also a valid C++ program. For
example, in C you can convert a 'void *'-typed object into a pointer of
arbitrary base type. In C++ an explicit type cast is required for doing that.
Furthermore, 8cc uses C11-specific keywords such as _Noreturn and C99-style
aggregate initialization. Therefore, the Clang-based frontend of ac++ generates
lots of error messages.

In theory, one could configure the parser of ac++ to be a pure C-parser.
However, this alone wouldn't help much, because the transformed code strongly
relies on C++ templates. One would end up with a mix of C11 and C++ code, which
couldn't be compiled by any compiler.

Best regards,

Olaf Spinczyk


On 12/29/2015 04:23 AM, Arefin Sami wrote:
> Hello, 
> I am quite new in AspectC++ and I have to use it to produce execution trace
> required for my research. My intention is to run the unit tests and get the
> execution trace (e.g., method signature). I created a new AspectC++ project in
> Eclipse-Ubuntu and it works fine with my aspects. But I would like to use it
> with an existing pure C project (e.g., https://github.com/rui314/8cc) which
> has its own makefile in its root directory. I manually replaced all the cc
> commands with ac++ but it does not work. May be its not the right way. Would
> you please help me out compiling the whole project with AspectC++ with a very
> simple aspect.
> Thank you.
>
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