How to parse C-programs without communication between parser and lexer

Hello,


could anybody suggest books/papers/help about how to parse C-programs
without communication between the parser and the lexer.


The main problem is to distinguish the typedefnames from the normal
identifiers. The common way is, that the parser writes in a hashtable the
typedefnames and the lexer reads from it.


In our implementation we can't do it this way. We have to lex the whole
C-program before the parser starts to work. So the parser is not able to
write in a hashtable.


Does anybody know something that could help?


Detlef
[You really can't tell the difference between a typedef type name and a
variable name without some parser feedback, so I'd suggest that you make
your lexer treat any unrecognized word as a symbol and in your parser
fiddle with the syntax so that it can accept a symbol in the type position
and throw out the mistakes that accepts semantically. -John]
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