Synopsis - Issue Tracker

Synopsis 0.10 (revision 1951) reports all sorts of errors if one runs it with Cxx parser on any header file that includes

    boost/utility.hpp or boost/serialization/serialization.hpp

Removing those includes, removes the errors. I've found this with Boost 1.36.

I had a look into this issue, and it turns out this is not an issue with the C++ parser, but a known problem with the Cpp (ucpp) preprocessor.

My attempt to solve the issue has been to write a new preprocessor, based on boost.wave. Unfortunately, it turns out boost.wave has a serious bug preventing Synopsis from using it for now. (Hartmut Kaiser is aware of this issue.)

Thanks,

I have no idea about Synopsis' internals, but I'm fairly certain that when I try the same input files with Cpp parser rather than Cxx parser, Synopsis doesn't crash. It doesn't produce any meaningful output, but it doesn't crash either.

Dmitriy via synopsis issue tracker wrote:
> Dmitriy <dev@foxcub.org> added the comment:
> 
> I have no idea about Synopsis' internals, but I'm fairly certain that when I try the same input files with Cpp parser rather than Cxx parser, Synopsis doesn't crash. It doesn't produce any meaningful output, but it doesn't crash either.

That's right: it just doesn't expand certain macros, which then cause 
the C++ parser to fall over. :-)

(Try 'synopsis -p Cpp -Wp,--cpp_output=test.ii ...' instead of 'synopsis 
-p C++ ...', and then search test.ii for BOOST_PP_ENUM_PARAMS_M. You 
will see that the preprocessed file is in fact not valid C++.)

Regards,
		Stefan

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