Re: Threadsafe parser generators?

Thanks to all for your replies. It has been pointed out that if I had
read the manual :-) I would have noticed that bison supports
re-entrant parsers with the %pure_parser directive. Having now read
the manual I have worked through making the examples in the .info
re-entrant and got them to work in my environment.


My original question was a actually rather pooorly phrased because I
want not only a parser but a lexer too. Having learnt my lesson :-) I
tried reading the flex manual but the generated C lexers are non
re-entrant. I have solved this by wrapping the C++ lexer in C and
passing the C++ object representing the lexer as an opaque type. Seems
to work ok but not ideal in my environment where we cannot guarantee
the availability of C++. It'll do for now though.


One thing to note is that there is a bug in bison.simple which makes
an assumption about the function prototype for yyparse which conflicts
with the function definition when a %pure_parser is used. It can be
got round by just knocking out the offending lines from
bison.simple. I will let the maintainers know.


Again, thanks to everyone for their help.
Regards,
Wilf Coles
c.coles@slh0633.wins.icl.co.uk
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