Re: gEDA: Verilog 19990529 snapshot

[Steve Wilson <stevew-at-NOSPAMhome_dot_com>]

On Sat, 29 May 1999, you wrote:

> On another subject, it occurred to me (thank to some mental stimulation
> by someone from this list) that ivl can use an external preprocessor to
> handle `include and `define compiler directives. Some directives, such
> as `timescale and that ilk will need to be handled directly by
> ivl, but `include, `define, `undef, `ifdef, `else and `endif and AND
> SHOULD be handled by an external program.
> 
> I expect to get to this some time down the road, but if there is someone
> out there sufficiently skilled in bison/flex who wants to give it a go,
> I'll be receptive.
> -- 
> Steve Williams                "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

Steve - 

There IS VBPP which should do this job I would think. It's GPL'd and
available from the same place I got VBS. 

Why re-invent the wheel if you don't have to?

Steve