From: Wayne <wemagor@...>
Date: 2007-08-03T09:50:13+09:00
Subject: Parsing C header files

I was wondering if there is a tool that can parse a C header file and
give me an AST that would allow me to process it in Ruby.  Does anyone
know of a relatively easy way to do this?  I was thinking that a lot
of people probably need to parse API's for one reason or another.

My situation is that we have a large application that was originally
written in Ada, but now has a C interface.  We need to make the API
available to Matlab/Simulink, which is a model-based development
system (basically it's programming with diagrams).  This is done in
Matlab via S-functions (system functions).  This system is pretty
large and writing all the S-functions by hand would be a big job.
Seems to me that a tool is the best choice and Ruby seems like the
tool to do it.