Re: Threadsafe parser generators?

<c.coles@slh0633.wins.icl.co.uk> wrote:


> Does anyone know of any threadsafe parser generators (for C),
> i.e. that will generate parsers to work in a multi threaded
> environment.


I don't know if this might help:


The Yeech! LALR(1) parser generator was designed to produce code
without globals; all non-constant data is kept in a "parser parameter
block", which contains references to the parsing tables as well, and
which is passed to the (safe) parser driver routine.


However, as I said, I don't know if this really helps you, since in
its present release Yeech! is a CodeWarrior plugin for Macintosh, and
no standalone is yet available, let alone versions for other
platforms. Furthermore, the generated code would still need a minor
tweak, in order to make the parser really threadsafe.


But thanks for bringing up the subject. I'll add this to my to-do list
for a future release of Yeech. (This is the C version. The C++ version
will be threadsafe by default.)


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Paul Evenblij
paulpaul@knoware.nl
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