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Re:GCC switches from C to C++ by lmm on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @06:52PM (#4388742)
A nonoptimizing C compiler is pretty easy (a friend of mine wrote one in high school), and that's all you need to bootstrap GCC.

He didn't even finish his parser for C++ though.

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Re:GCC switches from C to C++ by duaneb on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @07:37PM (#4388998)
Strictly speaking, C++03 can't be parsed, only interpreted (into a typed AST); it is not a context free grammar.
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Re:GCC switches from C to C++ by klodolph on Friday August 17, 2012 @08:28PM (#4399630)
You can parse languages that are not context-free. "Parse" just means that you figure out the structure of the file, the word has nothing to do with the techniques used.
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