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    <p>A few semesters back I had a class where we wrote a very rudimentary scheme parser and eventually an interpreter. After the class, I converted my parser into a C++ parser that did a reasonably good job of parsing C++ as long as I didn't do anything fancy with the preprocessor or macros. I could use it to read over my classes and functions and do neat things like automatically generate class readers or writers or set up function callbacks from a text file. </p> <p>However, my program is pretty limited. I'm sure I could spend some time to make it more robust and do more neat things, but I don't want to spend the time and effort if there are already more robust tools available that do the same thing. I figure there has to be something like this out there since parsers are an essential part of compilers, but I haven't seen tools specifically for automatic code generation that make it easy to go through and play with data structures that represent classes, functions and variables for C++ specifically. Are there tools that do this?</p> <p>Edit:</p> <p>Hopefully this will clarify a little bit of what I'm looking for. The program I have runs as a prebuild step in visual studio. It reads over my source files, makes a list of classes, their members, their functions, etc. which is then used to generate new code. Currently I just use it to make it easy to read and write my data structures to a plain text file, but I could do other things as well. The file readers and writers are output into plain .cpp and .h files which I include in the rest of my project just as I would any other file. What I'm looking for are tools that do similar things so I can decide if I should continue to use my own or switch to a some better solution. I'm not looking for anything that generates machine code or edits code that I've written. </p>
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    1. COI suppose it depends on the level. You could say a compiler performs automatic machine code generation. :-)
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    2. COTo expand on xpda's comment, what exactly do you want to generate? UI code (platform?), ORM bindings, database schemas, business logic validation, etc.
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    3. COSounds like he wants a parser or even compiler generator that gives him a framework to change the behaviour of C++.
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