use Tatoo's compiler as front end of javac

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Rémi Forax wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've written a blog entry that show how to use Tatoo
> to generate a parser usable as front end of javac.
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2008/12/using_tatoo_as.html
>
> cheers,
> Rémi
> I've patched the compiler grammar's javac (which is already a patch of 
> javac) a litte bit to be able to specify a parser factory on the 
> command line. 

How big is the patch to compiler grammar's javac?  Would it be worth 
contributing the patch to the main OpenJDK javac -- i.e. the work to 
specify a parser factory on the command line.

-- Jon