[petsc-dev] Documentation comment support

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Those wimps just call cpp instead of writing the preprocessor in Python
>> too (I did this). That means
>> you cannot regenerate properly.
>>
>
> Well, sort of. You have the original source around and you have the AST
> for what goes where. Preprocessing throws code transformation for a loop
> however you shake it. LLVM is a much heavier dependency and the Python
> interface is not as nice. Pick your poison.
>

I originally was forced into it to get typedefs, which have to be handled
by the preprocessor.

   Matt

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experiments lead.
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