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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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