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Re: Best tools for writing an assembler?

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On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:32:37 +0100, Sibastien Fricker
<sebastien.fricker@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 23/02/2014 17:22, noitalmost wrote:
>>
>> I wouldn't bother with any generation tools like flex or bison, unless
>> you want to gain experience with those tools for some other project. ..

>Sorry, but even if Flex/Bison are difficult to setup, writing a parser
>by hand is not a good way to work. ...

Everyone should hand-write a lexer and parser ... once.  If you're
designing the language syntax as you go, you'll design something
that's easy to scan and parse.  I agree with noitalmost that recursive
descent is the way to go.

Louis

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  Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-02-19 04:25 +0000
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      Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? noitalmost <noitalmost@cox.net> - 2014-02-23 11:22 -0500
        Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Sébastien Fricker <sebastien.fricker@gmail.com> - 2014-02-24 07:32 +0100
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      Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-02-24 20:42 +0000
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