Re: bison @n constructs

  ct7@datatel.com (W. Craig Trader) writes...
[...]
> In _lex & yacc_, John Levine et. al. refer to guards and the '%guard'
> definition for Bison with regards to the semantic parser option for Bison,
> and then direct you to the Bison documentation for details. Since guards
> and/or the '%guard' syntax (or the semantic parser for that matter) aren't
> mentioned in the Bison 1.20 documentation, I'm willing to bet that this
> feature faded away.


          It isn't mentioned in 1.24's documentation either, but support
for it is still present in the code. If you use %semantic_parser,
bison creates <basename>.guard.c as an extra output file, and the
code in bison.hairy makes a call to yyguard() prior to yyaction().
yyguard() is defined in that .guard.c file, where %guard code from
your grammar is evidently copied. I've gleaned all this from briefly
searching over the bison sources; I've never used bison.hairy and
don't know what %guard is actually intended to be used for...


          If you update to bison 1.24, be aware that there's a typo in
the conditional handling for `alloca' in source file conflicts.c.
The `#ifndef __GNUC__' there should be `#ifdef __GNUC__'.


Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu


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