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Subject: GNU's Bison vs. Yacc (Stallman replies)
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Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 14:37:26 EST
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In article <540076924.6593@minster.UUCP> martin@minster.UUCP (martin) writes:
>repeat NOT, yacc compatible!! Bison (at least the version I have!) does
>not support the %union directive, and all this implies. This means that I
>havn't yet found a yacc grammar which I can compile using bison, so
>I can't make use of all the nice, up-to-date algorithms bison uses!
>
>	Martin

Stallman replies:

    "Bison does support %union and I use a bison grammer with %union
    in the C compiler."