Re: Unexpected C Parsing Conflict

pocm@soton.ac.uk (Paulo Jorge de O. C. de Matos) writes:


> I have found a conflict in parsing C99 which arises from the fact that
> after a mult_expr a '*' (according to bison) can come up which means
> that it can either reduce mult_expr or shift the '*' for yet another
> multiplication.
>
> Now, * comes up as a unary operator and in the pointer definition but
> I can't find how or where they can follow a multiplication. Can
> someone let me know either how to solve this shift/reduce conflict or
> give me a concrete example where a * comes after a multiplication and
> is not a multiplication operator?


I have been able in the meantime to solve the issue. I had missing a
comma in the initializer-list nonterminal symbol definition.


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Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
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PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK

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