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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement
Date: 1998/02/17
Date: 1998-02-17T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sopipi4w.fsf@fred.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.3.96.980216154526.16866B-100000@shell5.ba.best.com


Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> 
> Agreed that parsing is "in the noise", but I think the difficulty of
> writing a correct parser which handles all of C++ is well known. That's a 
> question which comes up on the compiler newsgroup frequently, and so far 
> I don't think there is a freely available or PD parser which handles 
> anything beyond ATT v2.x. Also, parsers are used in other source analysis 
> programs than compilers, so the ease of writing a parser for a language
> has some impact on other tools. 

Both the g++ 2.8.0 parser (which is bison based) and the parser used on the
TenDRA system (which is build around a home-grown parser generator) 
parse reasonable recent C++ and are freely available.

-Andi




  reply	other threads:[~1998-02-17  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-02-15  0:00 Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-15  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16  0:00   ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Ralph Paul
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16  0:00       ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18  0:00           ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-19  0:00               ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-20  0:00                 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-03-05  0:00             ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-18  0:00             ` vonhend
1998-02-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22  0:00               ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-17  0:00             ` Dan Moran
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00           ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-19  0:00             ` John English
1998-02-22  0:00               ` Luis Espinal
1998-02-22  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-24  0:00                     ` Jonas Nygren
1998-02-24  0:00                       ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25  0:00                         ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-25  0:00                         ` Keith Thompson
1998-02-20  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-20  0:00               ` Laurent Guerby
1998-03-03  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-03  0:00                 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-19  0:00           ` Ada's complexity Steve Furlong
1998-02-20  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Jon S Anthony
1998-02-16  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
1998-02-17  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17  0:00       ` Geert Bosch
1998-02-19  0:00         ` Parsing Ada and C++ Steve Furlong
1998-02-16  0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement nabbasi
1998-02-16  0:00   ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16  0:00     ` nabbasi
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1998-02-18  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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