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From: mah@hpuviea.UUCP (Michael Haberler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: yacc
Message-ID: <822@hpuviea.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 08:55:42 GMT
References: <5740033@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Vienna,Austria
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From article <5740033@hpfcdc.HP.COM>, by mike@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike McNelly):
>> too many states."  When I run yacc with -v on a slightly simplified
>> .y file, it tells me that it is defining 748 of 750 states.
>> 
>> My question is:  is there any way I can increase the number of states?
>> If so, how do I do it?  The documentation I've been able to get my
>> hands on says nothing about the number of states.
> 
> Unless you have access to the source code for yacc, the state limit is a
> hard one.  Yacc does not have dymanically allocated arays for its

Why not just forget about Yacc and use Bison, a Free Software Foundation
replacement for Yacc? Browse through your next comp.sources.unix archive
and you might be able to find it. I got it to work on a PC; it does the
complete Ada grammar in under 2 minutes on an AT. And this one sure has
a substantial number of states.

-michael
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