Scripting C++ -- Boost.Python vs CORBA vs ???

[Sameer Suresh Shende]

Hi Dave,
	We've released pdtoolkit-2.1.zip on the web. It contains
the new taucpdisp.exe for Windows that fixes the bug you reported. I
believe Robert sent you this binary earlier. I hope this allows you to
parse BOOST with PDT. Let us know if we can assist you with anything.
	Thanks!
	- Sameer

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David Abrahams wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <rasmussn at lanl.gov>
>
> > On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 05:32 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
> >
> > > I've been interested in systems for automatically wrapping C++ and
> > > generating documentation for a while, so I downloaded the PDT (the
> parser
> > > toolkit used by SILOON) and tried it on one of my source files. After
> lots
> > > of hacking, I was able to get the EDG front-end component to parse my
> > > source
> > > and generate an intermediate language (.cil) file, but the PDT
> executable
> > > which is supposed to interpret the .cil and produce a high-level
> > > description
> > > of the code crashed with an assertion:
> >
> > SILOON uses scripts to run the PDT and we've worked hard to make it easy
> > to use.  Essentially all you have to do is edit a file (that is included
> > in a Makefile) and point macro variables to the location of your source
> > files (.h .cpp ...).  I would be interested to know if you have similar
> > problems using the EDG front-end from SILOON directly.
>
> Well, I'm less interested in SILOON itself than in the PDT, but I might try
> it if I get some more time to waste ;-)
>
> > > Assertion failed: ptr->assoc_template, file c:\documents and
> > > settings\bertie\desktop\finalwinstuff\taucpdisp\src\disp-
> > > tau\il_display_tau.
> > > c, line 3047
> > >
> > > Since the PDT doesn't come with source, there was no way for me to
> debug/
> > > fix
> > > the problem.
> >
> > The PDT comes with sources for everything (almost) but the EDG front end.
>
> There's no "il_display_tau.c" in either the .zip or the .tar.gz.
>
> > What PDT version were you using?
>
> The very latest I could find at
> http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paracomp/pdtoolkit/.
>
> > Would you like to send your source files to me directly
> > and I can
> > look at the problem, although if it is windows-specific code, I can't help
> > you
> > as I don't have access to Microsoft compilers.
>
> It's code that compiles on 7 different compilers including several different
> EDG-based compilers on four OSes, so it shouldn't be a problem. If you get
> the current boost cvs state (see http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=7586)
> and a copy of Python-2.2, you can try for yourself. The file is
> <boost-root>/boost/python/class.hpp.
>
> > (On further examination, it looks like the PDT doesn't have source for
> > taucpdisp,
> > I'll ask the developers why not.)
> >
> > I can provide access to a prerelease version of SILOON which uses the
> > latest
> > version of the PDT, which may fix your problems.
>
> If you can get this to work, I might be interested in seeing the results.
>
> > > Furthermore, the PDT developers don't seem to want to be reached. Their
> > > contact page (http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paracomp/pdtoolkit/)
> > > says:
> > >
> > >     To contact the developers of PDT, please use the "Comments" section
> in
> > > the download page.
> > >
> > > But of course, there is no "Comments" section on the download page. :=(
> >
> > I've forwarded you comments on to the PDT developers so that they can fix
> > their web pages and comment personally on the core dump.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>