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From: tupper@wanginst.UUCP (John Tupper)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: yacc state space
Message-ID: <1852@wanginst.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Apr-86 13:58:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 11 13:58:22 1986
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Reply-To: tupper@wanginst.UUCP (John Tupper)
Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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Keywords: yacc

>Yacc would no longer work on it.  It would give me a fatal error saying
>that state space was exceeded and just die.

Look at the sources to yacc. There is a file called "dextern". Inside
are several #define constants defining the number of states and rules and
countless other things that yacc can handle. If you change these and re-make
yacc, it should be able to handle any grammer (if you make them big enough).
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