Re: Writing a C++ compiler in C++

"Adem" <for-usenet-5c@alicewho.com> writes:


> Any projects out there which aim to write a real or experimental
> C++ compiler or interpreter using the C++ language itself?


Not quite an answer to your question, but I wrote a Verilog compiler
in C++ (using Yacc++) a few years back. The client is still using it
as part of their chip validation tool suite after half-a-dozen years.
So, non-trivial compilers have been written in C++.


However, if I were tasked to write a C++ compiler, the first question
I would ask is whether one couldn't leverage g++ to do the job. For
all the niceties of C++ (and I believe there are some, depending on
what you are comparing to), it still gets soundly trumped by reusing
already debugged code in most cases.


Hope this helps,
-Chris


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