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Re: bison patch to help gcc?
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Neil Booth |
Subject: |
Re: bison patch to help gcc? |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:05:35 +0000 |
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Tim Josling wrote:-
> There are three problems here
>
> 1. Bison gets a bad name.
> 2. A lot of time is wasted with proposals to rewrite the parser to get
> rid of 'inefficient' bison.
> 3. In some cases people actually hand coded the parsers.
Don't forget there is correlation: it would also be unfair to those
anti-bison to state that the actions are independent of bison. Our
actions are currently cack-handed, a large part of it working around bison
issues.
A hand-coded parser doesn't have this problem.
Neil.