Re: bison patch to help gcc?

[Neil Booth]

Tim Josling wrote:-

> There are three problems here
> 
> 1. Bison gets a bad name.
> 2. A lot of time is wasted with proposals to rewrite the parser to get 
> rid of 'inefficient' bison.
> 3. In some cases people actually hand coded the parsers.

Don't forget there is correlation: it would also be unfair to those
anti-bison to state that the actions are independent of bison.  Our
actions are currently cack-handed, a large part of it working around bison
issues.

A hand-coded parser doesn't have this problem.

Neil.