Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: Bison
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.125439.2391@doe.utoronto.ca>
Summary: Bison bombs on CR; byacc works fine
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
References: <1991Jan28.125346.4904@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 1991 12:54:39 GMT

In article <1991Jan28.125346.4904@warwick.ac.uk> csual@warwick.ac.uk (Jas) writes:
>Has anyone got a working version of bison (the PD version of yacc) ? I took a
>copy from atari.archive but it bombs as soon as I run it. I saw something on the
>net a couple of weeks back about a new version of bison coming out (or was it
>for flex?)

The bison binaries which have been out for a couple of years choke on the
CR character which most atari programs insert before LF after every
line of a file :-(. Strip out the CRs, and it should not bomb.

Yes, I want to put out my new port of bison, but I cannot get it to unlink
its temporary files correctly. In the mean time, use byacc, in
atari/gnustuff/tos at atari.archive.umich.edu. It works fine.

David

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