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| From | glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> |
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | The STEP Preprocessor |
| Date | Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:39:37 +0000 (UTC) |
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Many years ago I worked with the STEP Preprocessor. It was first described to me as a form of Compiler-Compiler, but it seems more like a Preprocessor-Compiler. (It runs more like an interpreter than is usual for a compiler.) In case anyone is interested, the manual is now online at: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/slac/The_STEP_Processor.pdf Unlike many preprocessors, the macro form can describe the exact grammar required, process appropriately or print error messages, and generate any required output. I now have the source code (in Fortran-66, and in an extended Fortran processed by STEP macros.) I hope soon to send it to the software archive of bitsavers. Not that I follow preprocessors so carefully, but I don't know of anything at all similar done since then (about 1977). -- glen
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