[lug] February 14, 2002 - Boulder Linux User Group Meeting

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Ralf" == rm  <rm at fabula.de> writes:

Ralf> After all: why write your own tokenizer/scanner if the compiler
Ralf> needs to do it anyway (and the compiler can do all sorts of
Ralf> things (flow analysis etc.) an external tool can't).

I don't know about RATS, but in general one reason to write your own
scanner is if you want to look at all the #if alternatives.  The
compiler only looks at one at a time.  This can be a problem since in
many cases you can't even compile the non-taken #if branches on a
given box.  So which approach you take must depend on the problem and
your goals.

HTH,
Tom