var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "Development tools that work with programming languages benefit from their ability to understand the code with which they work at a level comparable to a compiler. C has become a popular and powerful language, but parsing it is a very challenging problem. This has discouraged the development of tools meant to work directly with the language.

There is one open-source C parser, the C front-end to GCC, which is currently able to deal with the language in its entirety. The purpose of the GCC-XML extension is to generate an XML description of a C program from GCC's internal representation. Since XML is easy to parse, other development tools will be able to work with C programs without the burden of a complicated C parser."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }