Re: Is there a command that shows the C-code the interpreter creates?

[GoSim]

apjanke-floss wrote
> On 4/16/19 4:56 PM, GoSim wrote:
>> Ok, I misunderstood, Bison doesn't parse the m-code but creates a parser.
>> So
>> Bison is a general interpreter. And the parser creates a parse tree. 
> 
> Pretty much. Bison generates a C program which is a parser, and the
> execution of that parser procedurally processes the parse tree, though
> the parse tree itself may not be represented explicitly in a data
> structure.
> 
>> And you run this parser on every line in the m-file. I thought the m-code
>> was converted to C-code somewhere...
> 
> Nope.
> 
>> How does your parser know if it is a int or double?
> 
> All numerics in Octave are doubles unless you explicitly convert them to
> ints using int32() or similar conversion functions. All numeric literals
> in Octave produce doubles. So if you see a number in Octave code, it's a
> double.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew

How does your parser know if it is a string or int or matrix or imaginary
number?
thanks for clearing stuff up btw.




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