On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 15:52 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
If you're building this framework as a bunch of libraries, that means expressivity at all kinds of boundaries that would be strictly "internal" in a monolithic compiler will be limited by your idea of what may scare people. Are you sure this constraint is a good idea? Seems likely there are good reasons to templatize a lexer and lots of other components in a C++ compiler.
I know that I could use a C++ parser for a reverse engineering architecture I am creating. There are more uses for a parser and its output (e.g. Abstract Syntax Tree ) are useful for source code reverse engineering. I would hate to have to write my own parser. That is the problem I have with GCC. The parser is hardwired into the C code. I prefer to have a C++ parser that can give me back a AST in order then perform my analysis. Stephen