esink@turia.dit.upm.es (03/01/91)
Opinions requested: Given that you have a clean ANSI C compiler, written in ANSI C, ALSO given that said compiler required N units of effort to write, approximately how much effort would be required to modify the compiler to compile C++ ? Would this be a totally wrong way to approach the design (would ANY of the code from the C compiler be useful ?) How would the structure of the parser affect the workload (ie. YACC, or Recursive Descent) ? It would seem that such an idea is feasible, although I would suspect that the incremental effort to go from C to C++ is significant in terms of N (total effort 3N ?). I was just wondering... Somebody redirect followups to comp.compilers if that would be more appropriate. Thanks, Eric Eric W. Sink | Putting the phrase |All opinions Departamento de Telematica | "Frequently Asked" |are mine and Universidad Politecnica de Madrid| in your kill file is |not necessarily esink@turia.dit.upm.es | not recommended. |yours.