On 17 Aug 2012, at 07:47, A D wrote: > I need to write a parser for a programming langauge which is as complex as > C++, and to even complicate the matter, there are constructs in this > langauge that doesn't allow me to use type/identifier dis-ambiguating lexer > hack. In other words, I will have to return just one lexical token (say > IDENTIFIER) from the lexer for both type references as well as non-type > variable references. > > Given these restrictions, I was wondering if it would be a wise decision > (or if it is even possoble) to use yacc/bison for my parser (given that I > may not have the flexibility to use GLR for performance reasons)…?
You might check with the Usenet newsgroup comp.compilers. At least an earlier revision of C++ is Yaccable: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/yaccable-grammar.html Hans _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison
