[antlr-interest] More, Status of C++ backend?

[Gavin Lambert]

At 23:59 3/01/2008, Maurizio de Pascale wrote:
 >My suggestion is that the right road (ideally of course, I know 
the
 >C runtime is already in place) would be to have the runtime 
written
 >in C++ (as close as possible to the java counterpart) and 
provide
 >(also) a C API for C users.

No, I disagree with that.  It's important to keep a pure C 
runtime, for use with embedded hardware.  Most of the embedded C++ 
compilers I've seen are fairly flaky.  (And that includes gcc.)