Re: Advice on Writing a Parser Generator

Thomas Skora <usenet0@skora.net>
4 Sep 2003 01:09:45 -0400

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From: Thomas Skora <usenet0@skora.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 4 Sep 2003 01:09:45 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 03-08-027 03-08-047 03-08-077
Keywords: LALR, tools
Posted-Date: 04 Sep 2003 01:09:37 EDT

jhayes2@oswego.edu (Jeff Hayes) writes:


> SableCC is really good, but it is not a true LALR Parser Generator, so
> you have to deal with shift reduce conflicts in the grammar, and it is
> underdocumented, but I like it.


I know a group, which tried to write an parser for C with
SableCC. They discovered some (ugly) disadventages of its concept,
which made it very hard for them to write and enhance this parser. For
example they had to patch SableCC to resolve shift/reduce-conflicts
with an default action (for if-statements) and wasn't able to set
semantic flags in the parser.


Thomas


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