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Subject: Re: Python Front-end to GCC
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> A language specification in BNF is just syntax. It doesn't say anything
> about semantics. So how could this be used to produce executable C code
> for a program? BNF is used to produce parsers. But a parser isn't
> sufficient.

A C program is just syntax also.  How does the compiler generate
executable machine code?  Extrapolate into a Python front-end to C.

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MarkJ
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