> I think if you emit C code, it is much harder to get good debug information, which is important. I think you can annotate the generated code with certain pre

> I think if you emit C code, it is much harder to get good debug information, which is important. I think you can annotate the generated code with certain preprocessor instructions to tell the compiler about the real source lines in order to get proper debug information. I think lex/yacc or flex/bison use that. Don't know if it's a gcc extension.