Re: MPS: Loaded pdump

[Andrea Corallo]

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 17 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> As a one-time thing, I don't think anyone will care how the code was
>> obtained, as long as it is maintained by hand henceforth.
>>
>> But if you suggest this as a permanent inclusion into Emacs, then I
>> don't think we can go that way, since the tools to produce this are
>> neither standard ones available everywhere, nor something we can
>> include with Emacs.
>
> I think the goal is not to edit the generated code manually but to keep
> the code generator around and edit that if needed.
>
>> Given that Emacs now has tree-sitter bindings, I wonder whether the
>> same can be done in Emacs Lisp using tree-sitter for parsing.  That'd
>> be acceptable, I think.
>
> That's an interesting idea.  I tried to rewrite the Python code in Elisp
> and it works, after a fashion.

Thanks for taking this up.

> The tree-sitter syntax tree is at a lower level than what libclang
> offers and I had to rewrite the tree quite a bit to make it easier to
> use.  I also pipe the C source code through the preprocessor first, so
> that tree-sitter doesn't see macros.  With macros, it's even harder to
> get some easy to use data structures out of it.
>
> I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Anyway the code is here:

I guess we want to have it in admin/ and run it when necessary?

Thanks

  Andrea