Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Propsal draft: Block Header Parsing Tool

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:36:21PM +0530, Arpit Gupta wrote:
> Happy Holi everyone (holi is an Indian festival of colors)
>
> Thank you Nicolas for your valuable response
>
> I understood all your points and will surely make changes in the proposal.
>
> The tools here I referred are both pygccxml and libclang.
>
> There is trade off for both the tools:-
>
> 1). Pygccxml takes up a quite a bit of computation time while libclang is
> better in this case.
>
> 2). Pygccxml is quite mature and also has a proper documentation which
> gives it advantage over libclang.
>
> 3). Pygccxml generates a nice AST which is really understandable and easy
> to work with while this is not the case in libclang.
>
> 4). Still libclang is really popular C++ parsing tool and is under
> continuous development which gives us an excellent opportunity to explore
> it.
>
> So, I think itâ**s worth it to use both of them to parse header files.
>
> I definitely know that the most important part of the project is about
> extracting most of the information from the header files, but I thought
> that the ultimate goal is to create YAML files for the GRC. I will
> definitely make these changes and Iâ**m really sorry for the confusion
> created due to this in the proposal.
>
> So, Should I proceed using both the tools?

Do you mean, use both tools at the same time, or have an option to use
either tool?

-- M