Reporting errors from yacc/bison grammar...

Hello,


I'm quite new to yacc/bison, but from what I've seen so far it leaves
much to be desired in its handling of errors. What is a good way to
produce meaningful errors?


I wrote a grammar for a file format I need to parse, but now I would
like to say, "hey, I expected this..." instead of a generic parser
error message. Is there a way to do this w/o enumerating errors as
grammar rules?


There have been a number of short threads about this, but I have not
found any good answers.


Thanks.


Derek
[If you look way back in the compilers archives, you'll see some work
on extracting follow sets from yacc parsers for error messages.
Personally, I don't find such messages very useful since for far too
many kinds of errors, the follow set is totally misleading. -John]

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