OMG! You can actually look at some of Ritchie's earliest C compiler code:https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc …
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... which means I must not be thinking of the same "obvious" that Ritchie was thinking of, and I want to know what I'm missing...
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I wonder if it was a one-pass compiler, so it was just easy and natural to do things like look at the symbol table in the parser?
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One story I've heard (which might be apocryphal, though it seems plausible) is \
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that repurposing the expression parser as the declarator parser gave them a significant memory savings. \
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