charfi asma <charfiasma@xxxxxxxx> writes: > However, have you any idea why gcc uses now hand written lexer and parsers ? > what's wrong with lexer/ parser generated from flex/ bison ? The C and C++ languages are not LALR(1), and as such are not suitable for parsing by bison. The old bison parsers were hard to read, hard to modify, and, at least for C++, not wholly correct. Ian