Re: Cygwin 'byacc' question

Bill Cox <bill@qswtools.com>
8 Nov 2005 23:34:53 -0500

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From: Bill Cox <bill@qswtools.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 8 Nov 2005 23:34:53 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 05-11-030
Keywords: yacc, comment
Posted-Date: 08 Nov 2005 23:34:53 EST

Andrey Tarasevich wrote:


> As a workaround, I can probably use a different prefix for each
> parser, instead of the default 'yy', thus eliminating the name
> conflict, but it is still strange to have the global namespace
> polluted with essentially local names. Any ideas?


The current bison version has a --name-prefix=<prefix> option,
and it's probably not much trouble to switch from byacc to bison.
I've switched grammars both ways in the past.


And the latest Linux byacc that Google shows me has a very similar
"-p <prefix>" option.
[The -p option has been available for a very long time. -John]

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