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Questions about Yacc (YYMAXDEPTH) srini@synopsys.Synopsys.COM (1991-03-05) |
Re: Questions about Yacc (YYMAXDEPTH) dg@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (1991-03-07) |
Re: Questions about Yacc (YYMAXDEPTH) bliss@sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu (1991-03-08) |
Re: Questions about Yacc (YYMAXDEPTH) kathy@hpdcdb.fc.hp.com (Kathy Harris) (1991-03-13) |
Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
From: | bliss@sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu (Brian Bliss) |
Keywords: | yacc |
Organization: | Center for Supercomputing Research and Development |
References: | <694@synopsys.COM> |
Date: | Fri, 8 Mar 91 20:31:07 GMT |
In article <694@synopsys.COM>, srini@synopsys.Synopsys.COM (Srinivas
Raghvendra) writes:
|> I notice that Yacc uses a #define named YYMAXDEPTH and that this value has
|> been set at 150.
|> (1) I notice that even for moderately nested constructs, this seems
|> insufficient. (I get a Yacc stack overflow).
If you get overflows, you are probably using too many right-recursive
productions in you grammar. change these to left-recursive productions
and the stack won't grow without bound. (i.e. lemme see your grammar).
bb
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