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I thought that GCC being a handwritten recursive descent parser was giving it a huge disadvantage compared to other compilers when it came to introducing new st
by bitL 4y ago
I thought that GCC being a handwritten recursive descent parser was giving it a huge disadvantage compared to other compilers when it came to introducing new standards (I remember people complaining about it a lot in the past).
- not2b 4y agoYou're misinformed. clang also has a custom parser. Both gcc and clang have great support for new standards, though as those standards are evolving some features aren't there yet (but none of the missing features have anything to do with parsing difficulties). You can find lots of detail on feature coverage at https://gcc.gnu.org https://gcc.gnu.org .