• DOI:10.1145/176454.176487
Corpus ID: 14814637

RE2C: a more versatile scanner generator

@article{Bumbulis1993RE2CAM,
  title={RE2C: a more versatile scanner generator},
  author={P. Bumbulis and D. Cowan},
  journal={LOPLAS},
  year={1993},
  volume={2},
  pages={70-84}
}

P. Bumbulis, D. Cowan

Published 1993

Computer Science

LOPLAS

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… CONTINUE READING

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