On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:49 -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> if they only need to read/edit a 
> simple text (.c) file to add additional type tests.  The expected 
> results could be marked with comments:

>    // LTYPE: struct bar {
>    // LTYPE:   struct foo *f;
>    // LTYPE:   struct bar *b;
>    // LTYPE: }
>    // VALUE: { 0x.*, 0x.* }
>    // STYPE: struct bar
>    // TEST: bp
> 
> and a page of AWK could translate that into the body of a test.
> 
> For the easy cases, can the generator produce a file like that; 

I interpreted this as "create a generator that produces output like the
above from C source.  This python script pretty much does that from an
input file of C source.  I think it is reasonably solid, but as per the
meeting discussion if the preference is to have a tightly defined input
file syntax instead then that is okay too.