From: demer@hc17031.hcsd.ca (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Why Gnat doesn't use Yacc?
Date: 1996/12/31
Date: 1996-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4ohfammki.fsf@hc17031.hcsd.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32C914C6.243C@nudt.edu.cn
>I wonder why Gnat doesn't use yacc?
Gnat uses a much superior parser-generator called "Dewar" :-)
In particular, this parser generator technology is much better at
handling error recovery than Yacc. It also produces substantially
faster parsers. Unfortunatly, "Dewar" is proprietary to Ada Core
Technologies.
dave
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1996-12-31 0:00 Why Gnat doesn't use Yacc? XiangQiang Zhang
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