Re: Creating a debugger for a bison designed language

[Hans Aberg]

On 11 Jan 2007, at 19:44, Jachyra wrote:

> If I use bison to essentially parse my
> language and generate C code (which gets compiled to a windows  
> binary), and
> then create a debugger that attaches to the DLL that was compiled  
> in debug
> mode (for the sake of argument, lets say I'm just using dbg), will the
> debugging information I get from the debugger refer to the lines  
> and symbols
> in the code that was written in my custom language, or will it be  
> reffering
> to lines and symbols that are in the bison generated "C" code?

Currently, you only get to debug the parser C-code, and will have to  
use to special techniques to debug the parser itself. But Satya is  
working on a debugger format for the parser itself, so that one can  
follow the position in the .y file. But this may not what you are  
asking for - your project probably asks fro a debugger for the  
compiler of the language you are implementing. If you do not get moe  
info in this mailing list, you might try the Usenet newsgroup  
comp.compilers, and its FAQ, posted there monthly.

  Hans Aberg