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From: alan@cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer)
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Subject: Re: Linking two yacc (y.tab.o) files
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Date: 23 Feb 90 01:09:03 GMT
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In article <25E34681.3787@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:
| I created a yacc file for each parser, tested them separately, and prepared
| to link the objects into a larger program.  Unfortunately, that's as far as
| I got.  Since yacc creates a lot of global variables when it makes the
| y.tab.c files, there were many conflict errors when I tried to link the two
| files.

We have a program which uses two different grammars and the Makefile
runs one y.tab.c through sed to change the names of things.  I think
there's 40-some things to change.  Haven't had any problems with this.
If you or anyone else want it, you're welcome.

-- Alan				# "But seriously, what could go wrong?"
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