[Tinyos-help] Question on preprocessing in NesC

[kwright at EECS.Berkeley.EDU]

One more thing -- Cory pointed out that ncc is actually generated from ncc.in which is in source form at nesc/tools/ncc.in. 

-kw

----- Original Message -----
From: kwright at eecs.berkeley.edu
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:30 pm
Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] Question on preprocessing in NesC

> 
> See where I said 'in general' below? That's because I was 
> hedging... but someone asked (actually I got teased for not giving 
> a good answer) so I looked more for who includes tos.h. And here 
> it is:
> 
> tos.h is included by the perl script ncc. It adds an option onto 
> the command line before invoking the compiler.  Check out ncc 
> where is does this:
> 
> unshift @new_args, "-fnesc-include=tos";
> 
> Then look in nesc-main.c for 'nesc-include' and you'll see where 
> nescc includes it.
> 
> -kw
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kwright at eecs.berkeley.edu
> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:15 pm
> Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] Question on preprocessing in NesC
> 
> > 
> > In general, nesc includes work just like regular C includes. In 
> > your nc file, you state what components your application is 
> > comprised of.  For example, tos.h includes inttypes.h in the 
> > standard c style.
> > 
> > As for environments, I'm not sure. I'll point you to the source 
> > for the definitive answer -- it's on sourceforge, the project 
> name 
> > is nescc, and the CVS module is nesc. I imagine that you already 
> > have a copy.
> > 
> > -kw
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Kevin Chang <kchang at cs.ucla.edu>
> > Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:01 pm
> > Subject: [Tinyos-help] Question on preprocessing in NesC
> > 
> > > To Whom It May Concern:
> > > 
> > > We're in Professor Palsberg's compiler research group at UCLA. 
> 
> > We are
> > > trying to write a compiler for NesC in Java. One of the 
> problems 
> > > we have is
> > > figuring what files to include from the nesC libraries.
> > > 
> > > For example from inspecting the app.c for Blink we found that the
> > > preprocessor includes /usr/local/avr/include/inttypes.h; How 
> > does the
> > > current NesC compiler know to include this file. The other 
> > > question is which
> > > environments are set when the compiler is invoked (for example 
> > #ifdef> NESC...) that the preprocessor depends on.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Kevin/Vids
> > > 
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