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You missed the point

Posted Mar 27, 2008 19:17 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: You missed the point by elanthis
Parent article: Striking gold in binutils

> I'm fairly sure (might be wrong) that the current versions
> of GCC have merged the C and C++ parsers.

The C parser was rewritten in gcc 4.1, and I *think* its still separate from the C++ parser.

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Posted Mar 28, 2008 22:25 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yes. It's not separate from the *Objective C* parser.

(The similarity is that, like the C++ parser, the C parser has now made 
the transition from bison to a hand-rolled parser.)