Re: Anyone extended MAXTABLE in yacc parsers?

Robert Corbett wrote:
>
> The reason the limit is 32500 is that the offsets into the table
> are shorts. To make tables larger than 32767 work, you will have
> to change a bunch of shorts to ints or longs.
>
> At the time I wrote Berkeley Yacc, machines had such small memories
> that using shorts instead of ints was a big plus. Times change.


I don't know if this is common practice, but I have found it useful to
'typedef' a new type when I think I need certain properties. The
typedef gives me a place to document the properties required and lets
me tailor the exact type used to the environment. This looks like a
place where that practice would be very useful.


I have recently started including macros for output modifiers
to match the typedefs, but that's another topic.


mtew@cds.duke.edu
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