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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2011
Thierry Miceli, Seattle, WA (US);
Thierry Miceli, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Declarations from an input source code are serialized into a stream of tokens produced by following each branch of a preprocessor conditional directive statement that interrupts a declaration. Tokens are labeled with a parsing path indicator corresponding to a parsing path induced by branches of a preprocessor conditional directive. The declarations that are formed along the different parsing paths are serialized by fetching the tokens that belong to the first parsing path in a first pass, and passing the tokens on to a next phase of a compiler. The pointer that marks the next token is repositioned to return to the start of the declaration. The declaration may be serialized again through the second parsing path in a second pass. The operation may be repeated until each of the parsing paths induced by the presence of branches of the preprocessor conditional directives in the source code is exhausted.