Re:We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques
by bitL on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @09:53AM
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I thought that GCC being a handwritten recursive descent parser was giving it a huge disadvantage compared to other compilers when it came to introducing new standards (I remember people complaining about it a lot in the past).
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Re:We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques
by not2b on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:58AM
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You're misinformed. clang also has a custom parser. Both gcc and clang have great support for new standards, though as those standards are evolving some features aren't there yet (but none of the missing features have anything to do with parsing difficulties). You can find lots of detail on feature coverage at https://gcc.gnu.org .