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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: question about linker
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 06:54:23 -0800
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 11/12/2024 14:39, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>
>> C grammar is not LL(1), that is you can not recognize a construct
>> looking at its first token.  You need the whole construct and
>> sometimes also the following token.  And there are also well
>> known troubles due to type names and "dangling else".
>
> I can't call it 'context sensitive' because that is a technical
> term with a specific meaning, [...]

You could call it context sensitive, because C can be recognized
as a context-sensitive language.  And that includes type names.