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Re: bison patch to help gcc?

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>
To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Cc: Tim Josling <tej at melbpc dot org dot au>, bison-patches at gnu dot org
Date: 26 Mar 2003 23:35:07 -0800
Subject: Re: bison patch to help gcc?
References: <3E8204B0.2070503@melbpc.org.au> <vi8llz18hmw.fsf@cs.ucla.edu><873cl92u3n.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>

Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com> writes:

> My understanding is that the basic issue is that GCC's extended C has
> a grammar which is not LALR(1).

Bison currently generates GLR parsers too, which should be enough to
handle any weird constructs that the C and C++ language designers can
think of.

Also, we are planning to add LL(k) support.  It sounds like you might
prefer LL(k), since you like ANTLR; perhaps we should bump its
priority.

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References:
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