Re: Best tools for writing an assembler?

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:32:37 +0100, Sibastien Fricker
<sebastien.fricker@gmail.com> wrote:


>On 23/02/2014 17:22, noitalmost wrote:
>>
>> I wouldn't bother with any generation tools like flex or bison, unless
>> you want to gain experience with those tools for some other project. ..


>Sorry, but even if Flex/Bison are difficult to setup, writing a parser
>by hand is not a good way to work. ...


Everyone should hand-write a lexer and parser ... once. If you're
designing the language syntax as you go, you'll design something
that's easy to scan and parse. I agree with noitalmost that recursive
descent is the way to go.


Louis

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