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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Parser Error Detection and Recovery
Keywords: yacc, errors, debug
Message-ID: <1796@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 91 21:32:03 GMT
References: <9103211951.AA01615@fiu.edu> <16273@prometheus.megatest.UUCP>
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In article <16273@prometheus.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.com (Dave Jones) writes:
>However, the original yacc has a bug related to default-reductions which
>makes proper error-recovery impossible: It creates states with default
>reductions and a shift-action on "error". The bug is a typo. ...

That might explain some problems I've been having.  Can somebody post (or
mail) a short yacc file that demonstrates the problem?  I need to determine
if the yacc I am using has this bug.

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