Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

> CoCo/R exists since many years, and I created an OO version of it.
> While C has one LL[2] part in its grammar, C++ may require more
> lookahead. But this should not be a really limiting factor, most
> production LL parsers are handcrafted, maybe based on a skeleton made
> by an compiler generator.

That's very cool. On the other hand, C can be perfectly parsed with an LR(1) 
parser. I think I did implement an LL parser too, but compared to 
implementing an LR parser, that was quite a bit less painful.


I found the following page that I think partially answered my question 
though (it's about why C++ can not be parsed with an LR(1) parser):


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/243383/why-c-cannot-be-parsed-with-a-lr1-parser


However, after reading the answer, I understand that the kind of compiler 
generator I've implemented will actually produce a GLR parser; which is 
capable of resolving this problem.


Mattias