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
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.
