Re: Compiling to C (where C is used as misspelled assembly)

Ram Bhamidipaty <ramb@spring.epic.com> wrote:
> I have a bit of experience with exactly this sort thing. I modified
> Bison to produce directly executable parsers, and they were huge. For
> example the gcc grammar generated a yyparse() with 24,000 lines. An
> oberon grammar yielded a yyparse() with almost 10,000 lines. Both


Maybe C compiler-writers should try out f2c more often. Us Fortran
compiler-writers are used to subroutines which make 10000 lines seem but
a brief bit of code on the back of an envelope!


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