Re: Accent compiler compiler?

Albert Hofkamp <hat@se-46.wpa.wtb.tue.nl>
21 Jan 2003 00:16:52 -0500

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From: Albert Hofkamp <hat@se-46.wpa.wtb.tue.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 21 Jan 2003 00:16:52 -0500
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Keywords: tools
Posted-Date: 21 Jan 2003 00:16:52 EST

On 17 Jan 2003 20:02:21 -0500, Hugo Rozas <hugo-rozas@iespana.es> wrote:
> Hi to All
>
> use flex and bison, but surfing the web found this compiler compiler :
> Accent. What i like about it, is; It seems relative small and simple and
> has some advantages over Yacc. The problem is that it's a little
> unknown and I don't know if it really works and if it's bug free.
> Have anyone used it and can recommend it?


I used it as syntax checker, i.e. without adding actions to build an AST.
The parser itself does seem to work, but I got a huge list of compiler
warnings (I always compile code with -Wall) from the generated parser C
code.
The main concern was/is not so much the warnings themselves (they are
fairly trivial problems), but the fact that after adding my own code,
warnings from my code would probably drown in the flood.
I reported this fact over 1 year ago.


Last december, I looked again at Accent, and the same version as 1
year ago is still distributed. Maintenance of Accent seems to
happening very slowly.




If you intend to use Accent to build an AST, you either
- compile the parser code without checking for warnings (i.e. no -Wall),
- live with the flood of warnings when compiling with -Wall, or
- fix the problem before using Accent (the source of Accent as well as the
    construction toolkit used to build Accent are freely available).




Albert

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