Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!rphroy!tkacik From: tkacik@rphroy.uucp (Tom Tkacik) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: patches 19-27 -- # shift/reduce,reduce/reduce conflicts with Bison Message-ID: <31306@rphroy.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 90 13:05:14 GMT References: Sender: news@rphroy.UUCP Reply-To: tkacik@rphroy.uucp (Tom Tkacik) Organization: GM Research, Warren, Mi Lines: 20 In article , composer@bucsf.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem) writes: |> Just so people know what to expect for conflicts in the perl.y grammar if |> they are using bison 1.11, for perl.y: |> Expect 27 shift/reduce and 61 reduce/reduce conflicts... (Larry reports that yacc produces 59 reduce/reduce conflicts.) |> I haven't checked out the grammars to see if these differences will cause |> problems. But, this is just FYI... Regardless of the version of yacc used, (yacc, berkley yacc, bison), the number of shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts should be the same. Does anybody know which parser generator has the bug? -- Tom Tkacik ...uunet!edsews!rphroy!tkacik GM Research Labs tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org "I'm president of the United States, and I'm not going to eat anymore broccoli." --- George Bush