tree-sitter-systemtap

SystemTap grammar and queries for tree-sitter as interpreted by Ryoko from the SystemTap v4.8 man pages, language reference, tapsets and test suite

Objectives

• Enable accurate syntax highlighting in a manner consistent with the SystemTap language server
• Help SystemTap script authors avoid parser errors
• Provide a rich concrete syntax tree
• Strike an intuitive balance between tree-sitter and SystemTap conventions

Language feature checklist

• Literals
• Comments
• Variable declarations
• Expressions
• Statements
• Function definitions
• Probe point definitions and aliases
• Conditional preprocessing
• Preprocessor macro definitions and expansions
• Embedded C

License

tree-sitter-systemtap is free and open source software licensed under the MIT license.

Acknowledgements

tree-sitter-systemtap takes after work done by Max Brunsfeld for tree-sitter’s C grammar and Vasil Markoukin for tree-sitter-tlaplus.