Re: Bottom-up versus Top-down

neitzel@gaertner.de (Martin Neitzel)
5 Dec 1997 00:55:41 -0500

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Re: Bottom-up versus Top-down mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu (1997-11-30)
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Re: Bottom-up versus Top-down jmccarty@sun1307.spd.dsccc.com (1997-12-05)
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From: neitzel@gaertner.de (Martin Neitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Dec 1997 00:55:41 -0500
Organization: Gaertner Datensysteme, Braunschweig, Germany
References: 97-11-123 97-11-155 97-11-178 97-12-011
Summary: old habits never die
Keywords: C, parse

>[Hey, the Ritchie C compiler wasn't entirely top down. It did expressions
>bottom up with a little operator precedence grammar. -John]


Just like Hanson+Fraser's lcc, by the way. It uses a table for
the precedence values of operators but is recursive-descent otherwise.


Martin Neitzel
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