Re: parsers for decoding network protocols?

"Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de>
2 Jun 2002 01:40:04 -0400

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From: "Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 2 Jun 2002 01:40:04 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 02-05-150 02-05-154
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 02 Jun 2002 01:40:04 EDT

Mr Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan wrote:
>
> The parsing techniques I know all accept on an 'EOF' token. What is
> the connection equivalent of EOF?


Simply don't associate semantic actions with the top-level, do
whatever has to be done whenever an incoming message has been
recognized. (Note we're talking about parsers, not lexers. Acceptance
isn't that important during a parse, most work is done while parsing
subconstructs.)


Regards,
Joachim

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