Re: C Parser

["Lee Millward" <lee dot millward at codesourcery dot com>]

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

You can find some information about the benefits of the hand-written
parser on the Wiki page for it - http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/New_C_Parser.
Hopefully you'll be able to find answers to some/all of your questions
from either that page, or from the discussion of the posted patches.

Cheers,
Lee.