Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Andrew Dunstan wrote: >>> Speaking of parsers, did anyone else notice that gcc in its latest >>> release has ripped out the bison based parser for C and Objective-C in >>> favor of a hand cut RD parser? >> >> Yeah, I did. I wonder what sort of effort they went to write the new >> parser.
> This is the new parser > http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/tags/gcc_4_1_0_release/gcc/c-parser.c?view=markup&rev=111560 > It's 6000 lines long. Given that we whack the grammar around on a pretty regular basis, I can't imagine that it'd be a smart idea to go to a handmade parser. gcc is dealing with a very stable language definition so the tradeoffs for them are a lot different. Be nice if bison were a tad faster though :-( regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
