parsing bigger files

2006-10-27 Thread Joerg Hoffmann
ers differ in various details of what exactly is parsed, so I can't try out what happens if I replace them, thanks, Joerg Hoffmann %{ #ifdef YYDEBUG extern int yydebug=1; #endif #include #include #include "bb.h" #include "memory.h" #include "parse.h"

Re: bison and downwards compatibility

2006-10-24 Thread Joerg Hoffmann
ue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +0200, Joerg Hoffmann wrote: Dear Bison makers, First, thanks for your very useful tool. However, I have to say I'm frustrated by the utter lack of downwards compatibility. Why is this necessary? I'm working with code that originated in 1998. It has in

bison and downwards compatibility

2006-10-24 Thread Joerg Hoffmann
r versions don't. In effect, I have spent countless hours in the last 5 years inserting ";" at the points where some programmer in 1998 happened to leave them away. It would be so much more convenient if the bison development obeyed some form of downwards compatibil