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Re: bison patch to help gcc?
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Tim Josling <tej at melbpc dot org dot au>
- Cc: bison-patches at gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, zack at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:05:35 +0000
- Subject: Re: bison patch to help gcc?
- References: <3E8204B0.2070503@melbpc.org.au>
Tim Josling wrote:-
> There are three problems here
>
> 1. Bison gets a bad name.
> 2. A lot of time is wasted with proposals to rewrite the parser to get
> rid of 'inefficient' bison.
> 3. In some cases people actually hand coded the parsers.
Don't forget there is correlation: it would also be unfair to those
anti-bison to state that the actions are independent of bison. Our
actions are currently cack-handed, a large part of it working around bison
issues.
A hand-coded parser doesn't have this problem.
Neil.