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From: martin@minster.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: GNU's Bison vs. Yacc (Stallman replies)
Message-ID: <540414812.6496@minster.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Feb-87 14:13:32 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 15 14:13:32 1987
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In article <4431@curly.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU> cracraft@sonia.UUCP (Stuart M. Cracraft) writes:
>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."

WONDERFUL!!! Many apologies to all, for spreading out-of-date information,
I must have an old version of Bison! That only leaves the liciencing problem
with Bison-generated programs - But I saw an article recently which suggests
this has also changed; is this true?

Now I just have to find a way of getting this new version!! Is it generally
available yet?

	Martin