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From: dean@cs.mcgill.ca (Dean NEWTON)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: how does one pass args to yyparse and yylex?
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.172631.15595@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 25 Jan 91 17:26:31 GMT
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Two questions regarding yacc and lex:

1) How does one pass args to yyparse and yylex from a C program?

2) How can one declare local variables in yyparse and yylex?

I have managed to do both of these by using a sed script in my makefile,
but it's ugly.  There has to be a better way.

Thanks,

Kaveh Kardan
Taarna Systems
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(posting from a friend's account)