Re: bison patch to help gcc?

[Zack Weinberg]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>> My understanding is that the basic issue is that GCC's extended C has
>> a grammar which is not LALR(1).
>
> Bison currently generates GLR parsers too, which should be enough to
> handle any weird constructs that the C and C++ language designers can
> think of.

Doesn't that algorithm have exponential space and time requirements?

> Also, we are planning to add LL(k) support.  It sounds like you might
> prefer LL(k), since you like ANTLR; perhaps we should bump its
> priority.

That would be interesting, yes.

zw