Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?
Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?
Posted Jul 25, 2018 20:49 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)In reply to: Replacing AWK with Python in GCC? by epa
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The a2p translator is likely to create an even greater mess of unreadable code from the current awk scripts.
They are also complex enough that the translated version is unlikely to work at all, given that a2p is essentially unmaintained AFAIK.
They are also complex enough that the translated version is unlikely to work at all, given that a2p is essentially unmaintained AFAIK.
WRT old machines without Python >= 2.7: there's always cross compilation.