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Re: C Parser


Probably someone else may give better answer, but shortly with the
many extensions (ad-hocks) to the C/C++ grammar the task of preparing
the inputs for the lex and bison seems not so trivial. Also, the
automatically generated parser wouldn't be as efficient as it is now.

On 1/18/07, Paulo J. Matos <pocm@soton.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi all,

I was quite surprised to see that the C Parser was manually
implemented and you didn't use any parser generator.

I would be curious regarding this decision. I would think the
development of a C parser would be an almost unsurmountable task and
not very logic given the parser generators in existence today.

Can someone comment this? (which issues led to this decision?)

Regards,
--
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK


-- Ferad Zyulkyarov Barcelona Supercomputing Center


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