>On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:51:10PM +0800, Shi Lei wrote: >> As you suggested, parsing C-structs plus some magic comments may be a good starting point. >> But parsing C is much more difficult than parsing xml or json. I think this job should base on >> some present tools or other basis. We can first refer to Clang or other light compiler front-end. >> Maybe we can utilize some output of the middle stage of these compilers. > >FWIW, we already have a tool in libvirt that parsers C header files. The >scripts/apibuild.py file extracts info about our enums, structs, APIs and >uses it to build the public API documentation. Okay. I'll examine it. > >I wonder if we can refactor that tool to extract the code for parsing into >a module, so that we can more reasily re-use it for both the API docs and >for a new XML generator It makes sense if this tool is suitable. Regards, Shi Lei > >Regards, >Daniel >-- >|: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| >|: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| >|: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| >
