HDL

NAME
DESCRIPTION
METHODS

NAME

HDL - Class of Hardware Description Lanugages. Loads and provides connection with HCT.

DESCRIPTION

This package is responsible for loading HDL into the HCT environment. To provide a support of a new language, should be created a new item in @languages variable:

[ Language name , Language file name , Language package name ]

HDL will automatically call the method new of the language package to get handler.

METHODS

Note that all HDL functionality is method based; use HDL->get_handler rather than HDL::get_handler.

init (): Initializes all languages defined in @languages. Each language will be loaded and corresponding handler will be created in %handlers.
langlist (): Get list of avaliable languages that have handlers.
is_defined ($language): Takes language and returns true if such language defined and false, if no.
uname ($language): Takes language name and returns unified name.
get_handler ($language): Takes language name and return language handler or undef.
load ($name, $file, $package): Takes language name, file name and package name as arguments and try to init language handler.
provide_file_associations ($name, $package): Takes language name and language package name and saves file associations of this language to the global list %HCT::FILE_ASSOCIATIONS.

This document is part of HCT, the Hardware Complexity Tool.

Generated: Fri Jul 17 10:38:47 2009