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Re: Bison and LR(1) Parsers
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: Bison and LR(1) Parsers |
Date: |
17 Jul 2001 16:26:37 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Josling <address@hidden> writes:
Tim> Who is the official maintainer?
Jesse Thilo and myself.
BTW, please, keep bug-bison for bugs, and use help-bison for other
matters. And Hans, please stop CCing to rms, he has other things to do.
Tim> All your comments make sense. I am just about to go off and get a
Tim> copy fo the Fortes paper. I did a search and he doesn't seem to
Tim> have patented it though there are patents in the LR parser space,
Tim> notably from IBM.
Tim> I will await an official verdict before writing anything.
I personally have no idea whether the new technology which have been
proposed for Bison would satisfy your needs. That's probably what
first needs to be checked.
I start to think that CVS branch might be a good approach to Bison's
development. But I hate them :)
Tim> The bison.simple also puts out some warnings when run with gcc in
Tim> pedantic mode - comparison of "signed and unsigned". Would
Tim> someone like a patch for this? I have already patched the version
Tim> on my system as I build gcc all the time and the messages annoyed
Tim> me.
Yep, this will be addressed.
Tim> I also have another question - is there anywhere I can download
Tim> the latest cvs version or whatever? I don't want to make a lot of
Tim> patches to an obsolete version.
Bison is on savannah and subversions.