Re: Shift/reduce conflict in Yacc C grammar

khays@sequent.com (Kirk Hays)
23 Jan 1998 00:20:51 -0500

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From: khays@sequent.com (Kirk Hays)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 23 Jan 1998 00:20:51 -0500
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
References: 98-01-035 98-01-058 98-01-079 98-01-088
Keywords: C, parse

Dmitri&Nina Bronnikov <Bronikov@inreach.com> wrote:
>Problem is easy to resolve by splitting balanced (all 'if's have
>'else's in 'then' parts) and unbalanced if statements. I've not seen
>anybody using this in practice until recently - you can see one at
>(mind yourself it's rather long html)
>
>[That splitting is a standard technique, but it's in the folklore, not
>written up in a lot of places. -John]


The earliest implementation of such splitting I've seen was in Intel's
PL/M-86 compiler, circa 1981.


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