On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 at 05:12:00 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
what's a non-full C front end? If it's not a real C front end
it's gonna
break with certain macros etc. Not good.
Macro are processed before parsing? No need for a full C frontend
to handle macros.
I see no point in re-implementing a C front end when we can
simply use an
existing one to do the job (eg clang). This would also allow to
parse C++
just as well.
When you only need a very limited part of the fronted, it make
sense. Here we don't need to parse function body for instance,
and we can skip most of semantic analysis (if not all ?).
