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   Message 862 of 2,753   
   Chris Dollin to Hans-Peter Diettrich   
   Re: Generating a simple hand-coded like    
   19 Dec 06 01:04:21   
   
   From: chris.dollin@hp.com   
      
   Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:   
      
   > As a solution for this problem in my LL(1.5) C parser, I leave the   
   > distinction to a stage between the lexer and parser, inside the   
   > preprocessor. Only in this stage "words" are mapped into keywords,   
   > typenames and other identifiers. The according "symbol" table is   
   > initialized with the C keywords, the preprocessor adds to it all   
   > #defined names, and the parser adds all encountered typedef   
   > names. This procedure works fine, provided that typedefs always have   
   > global scope, as is required in C.   
      
   Didn't we go round this a while ago? C typedefs can have non-global   
   scope.   
      
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   Chris "HO. HO. HO." Dollin   
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