Re: query : using BISON for static analysis engine

[Hans Aberg]

On 7 May 2010, at 13:00, <address@hidden> <address@hidden 
> wrote:

> Am writing to you to check the applicability of BISON  as a frontend  
> to
> our static analysis engine.

> Please let us know if  BISON would be applicable to us. Also, if you
> have any useful pointers in this regard, kindly share the same.

Your requirements are a bit conflicting: on the one hand, you want  
very exact parsing, which suggests using an open-source compiler like  
say GCC and modify it. On the other hand, you want to parse multiple  
dialects. You might write your own C/C++ parser using Yaccable  
grammars, which Bison would accept. Such are available here:
  http://www.quut.com/c/ANSI-C-grammar-y.html
  http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/compiler-dependencies.html#faq-38.11

You also ask in the Usenet newsgroup comp.compilers.

  Hans