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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: yacc reduce/reduce conflict question
Message-ID: <7583@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 22:04:56 GMT
References: <718@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
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From article <718@larry.sal.wisc.edu>, by jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival):
> I am using yacc (for the first time) to parse a special purpose
> language, and am doing pretty good, so far.  I am confused on
> something, though, and much pondering has failed to illuminate me.
> 
> I hope the following yacc output fragment is enough to sketch the problem:
> 
> [ yacc output fragment omited. ]

The fragment you posted is not enough. Try removing as much as you can
from the grammar while still keeping the reduce/reduce message. If it's
not obvious at that point, you might try posting the smaller grammar here.

I would recommmend that you study up on LR parsing. The "dragon book" by Aho
and Ullman is an old favorite.


    Good luck,

    Dave Jones