Re: Parser

[Marco Gerards]

Kevin Lacquement <address@hidden> writes:

> Again looking at the script parser, I notices that it uses a
> Yacc-generated parser, but a hand-written tokenizer. Is there a reason
> that it doesn't use Lex?  Is it due to external dependencies, and if so,
> is there a way to recreate these deps (library or whatever) within the
> constraints of the bootloader?

Right, and I really hate the handwritten parser.  It is easy to
cleanly use bison.  Lex, OTOH, isn't easy and clean to use.  IIRC it
depended on file IO, etc.  If you know a *clean* way to deal with
this, I would favor it.  Making all kinds of dirty stubs is something
I don't really like.

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Marco