RE2C: a more versatile scanner generator

@article{Bumbulis1993RE2CAM,
  title={RE2C: a more versatile scanner generator},
  author={Peter Bumbulis and Donald D. Cowan},
  journal={LOPLAS},
  year={1993},
  volume={2},
  pages={70-84}
}
It is usually claimed that lexical analysis routines are still coded by hand, despite the widespread availability of scanner generators, for efficiency reasons. While efficiency is a consideration, there exist freely available scanner generators such as GLA [Gray 1988] that can generate scanners that are faster than most hand-coded ones. However, most generated scanners are tailored for a particular environment, and retargeting these scanners to other environments, if possible, is usually… Expand
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