Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Extending wireshark with Python
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From: Sébastien Tandel <sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:46:08 -0300


On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 19:36, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 30, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Sébastien Tandel wrote:

> P.S. : I would like to add binpac within this python interpreter.
> But after having read the paper and thought a bit about the grammar,
> I think they've used Haskell (or another pure functional language
> for their compiler).

At least in the Bro 1.4 source, the files in the aux/binpac/src
directory are C++ (plus "Flex++" and "Bison++").  The page at

       http://bro-ids.org/wiki/index.php/BinPAC_Compiler

says

       Scanning and parsing is done by flex and bison generated code. A user
can learn the formal grammar specification from aux/binpac/src/
pac_scan.ll and aux/binpac/src/pac_parse.yy under the Bro source tree.

The BinPAC language *itself* might have adopted some concepts from
functional languages, but the translator for the language appears to
be Boring Old C++.

arf ... I'm disappointed. I was already thinking to a haskell interpreter embedded in the python interpreter, itself embedded into the wireshark lib. :-p



Regards,
Sebastien Tandel