On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:45:51AM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > One suggestion: you might be able to make the necessary modifications to > > BSD yacc, which I think descends from the original UNIX yacc by way of > > BSD UNIX and the whole AT&T vs. BSD issue. > > In this particular case, the modifications consist of changing the > output language from C to something else. That sounds fairly major; > the entire parsing engine would have been hand-translated to the new > language.
It's probably not that hard. The manner in which a yacc-generated parser operates is not obvious to somebody who does not understand it, but it really isn't complicated. I'd be surprised if it was more than a day's work. The hardest part is probably figuring out what they actually did, so as to create something compatible. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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