Re: push parser implemenation

[Bob Rossi]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:33:03AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>> "Bob" == Bob Rossi <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  > Honestly, I don't understand why a pull parser needs this feature. If
>  > the only reason the pull parser had extra parameters via %parse-param
>  > was to pass those parameters to the lexer, then the push parser doesn't
>  > need this feature, since the user calls the lexer directly.
> 
> You're forgetting auxiliary routines (yyerror, yyprint, yydestruct
> etc.).  Actually your work is almost to mimic what lalr1.cc does, but
> with member functions being functions.  The parser struct must
> aggregate the parse-params, and provide it to the auxiliary functions.
> 
> As for yyparse, do not forget about the %initial-action either.

Hi Akim,

It seems that Paul told me not to worry about %parse-param. Unless
decided otherwise, I'm not going to include it in the patch.

Bob Rossi