[Gomp-discuss] Re: [gomp] parse OpenMP directives

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> And Geoffrey Keating estimated 6-9 man years for a C/C++ front end
> merge with no adverse effects on language dialects supported or
> performance.
>
> By comparison, C - even GNU C - is *much* simpler to parse than C++,
> and a few weeks to a few months should be sufficient to replace a C
> parser (and no other components at the same time).

I'm a tad confused. Are we talking about writing a *separate* language
parser to handle OpenMP? I can't imagine that the resources exist to
write three language parsers.

My assumption was that the existing parsers would be extended to support
OpenMP directives.

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