Re: C++ parsing, was intermediate representation.

Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
15 May 2005 17:21:19 -0400

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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 May 2005 17:21:19 -0400
Organization: Integrable Solutions
References: 05-05-023 05-05-068 05-05-078 05-05-114
Keywords: C++, parse
Posted-Date: 15 May 2005 17:21:19 EDT

mefrill@yandex.ru (Vladimir) writes:


| henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote in message
| > In his "The Design and Evolution of C++", Stroustrup says that he let
| > Aho and Johnson talk him out of writing his own recursive-descent
| > parser for C++... and he now thinks that was a big mistake.
|
| Stroustrup means using YACC or Bison I think, the programms that
| generate LALR(1) parser and, consequently, demand input grammar must
| be LALR(1). It is known C++ grammar is not LALR(k) for any k. So,
| Stroustrup spent much time trying to write LALR grammar for C++. For
| the moment there is GLR parser as the next generation LALR parsers,
| which makes writing C++ frot-end fast and simple time spending.


In April 2004, I attended the Compiler Construction (part of ETAPS)
conference where a parser for C++ (Elkhound), based on GLR technology,
was presented. My understanding is that, in practice, it was far from
handling C++, notably most uses of templates. I don't know whether
any substantial progress has been made since then.


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                                                                                                              Gabriel Dos Reis
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