Re: Compiler implementation language preference ?

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On 2018-11-09, rockbrentwood@gmail.com <rockbrentwood@gmail.com> wrote:
> A notable gap is that Yacc is not self-compiled; thereby falling short of the
> "is it worth using" test!

GNU Bison's grammar is written in Yacc. Amusingly, it is going to town
with Bison extensions, so you need Bison to re build it:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bison.git/tree/src/parse-gram.y

So the user doesn't have to, they keep the generated C in the repo.

And that's about how far anyone can reasonably go in using a Yacc to build
Yacc.

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