Josh,
While a C++ parser would add significant complexity to Sparse, I would still prefer to integrate it rather than encouraging people to fork. I think a reasonable amount of code sharing would still exist between the C and C++ code, and ideally almost all of the backend code would support both.
Experience suggests that a C++ front end is around a factor of seven times larger than a C front end. There are many more syntactic ambiguities in C++ that require symbol table information to resolve (even then life can be tough). Code sharing would be possible in the sense that if a C++ parser were implemented it would be close to handling C out of the box. -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:derek@xxxxxxxxxxxx Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
