Re: C++ Grammar

"Mike Dimmick" <mike@dimmick.demon.co.uk> writes:


| "Gabriel Dos Reis" <dosreis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr> wrote in message
| > "Aaron Gray" <aarongray@beeb.net> writes:
| >
| > | Dear All,
| > | does anyone happen to know or have a more up to date C++ grammar
| than
| > | the old comp.compilers one :-
| > |
| > | ftp://ftp.iecc.com/pub/file/c++grammar
| >
| > You may find one in B. Stroustrup's third "The C++ Programming Language".
|
| > [Any idea how well it works with parser generators? -John]
|
| There's A grammar there. It's for explanation of the language, and is a
| direct duplicate of Appendix A of ISO/IEC 14882:1998 (or in other words, the
| C++ standard).
|
| It's not LALR(1), nor is it LL(k), and it isn't suitable for direct
| implementation by any method. At least, I found that it wasn't.


Well, The original poster asked for "a more up to date C++ grammar".
At CodeSourcery, we're basing a hand-written parser on it.


-- Gaby

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