Re: What stage should entities be resolved?

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:31:39 +0100

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:31:39 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 22-03-019 22-03-025 22-03-032
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Keywords: lex, design
Posted-Date: 17 Mar 2022 19:34:55 EDT
In-Reply-To: 22-03-032

On 3/15/22 12:49 PM, Roger L Costello wrote:


> So that brings me to my questions:
>
> 1. How much knowledge of the language should the preprocessor stage have?
[...]


Knowledge of how many languages should the preprocessor stage have?




I think that all parts of a compiler front end should follow the
specific language rules. Just for maintenance purposes.


If universal generator tools for lexer or parser are used then the
specific language grammar is the input to these tools.


DoDi

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