[cfe-dev] firm 'cparser'

[Chris Lattner]

As mentioned on llvmdev, the 'firm' project recently released the  
source (GPL2 license) for their new C parser, named "cparser":
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cparser

In my brief look at it, it looks even more half baked than Clang :),  
and (like firm) seems to have an "academic" approach rather than being  
built with a goal of a fast and fully conformant frontend.  It  
currently doesn't have a preprocessor (though one is in progress),  
doesn't track column numbers, uses global variables all over the  
place, does not have an optimized lexer (or anything else), etc.   
OTOH, it *does* have a man page, and can apparently bootstrap itself! :)

I'm not sure why they didn't just use clang, but being written in C++  
and/or using a BSD license seems like possible reasons.

-Chris