freebsd-ports/devel/asdlgen/pkg-descr
Edwin Groothuis 6ec7d6368c New port: devel/asdlgen generate serializers for C,C++,Haskell,Icon,Java,ML
asdlGen generates data structure and serializer code from ASDL
	specifications [1]. It is especially helpful for exchanging
	tree like data structures between different programming languages.
	Currently C, C++, Haskell, Java, Icon, OCaml and SML are supported.
	Although the asdlGen project itself seems no longer actively
	maintained, ASDL is "alive" as it is used (at least) in the
	Moby [2] and Python [3,4] compilers.

	The port optionally installs a simple usage example [5] for all
	seven programming languages. I developed it primarily to test the
	port, but it could be helpful to users of asdlGen to get a quicker
	start, especially if a less familiar programming language is
	involved in their project. Reviewers/committers can easily make
	use of it via the "test-demo" target.

PR:		ports/117703
Submitted by:	Johannes 5 Joemann <joemann@beefree.free.de>
2008-05-24 06:39:32 +00:00

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asdlGen is a tool for generating data marshalling and
unmarshalling code from a high-level (ASDL) specification.
It can generate such code for sml, ocaml, ansi-c, java, haskell,
icon, c++.
The Abstract Syntax Description Lanuguage (ASDL) is a language
designed to describe the tree-like data structures in compilers.
Its main goal is to provide a method for compiler components
written in different languages to interoperate.
WWW: http://asdl.sourceforge.net/