Re: Bison 1.35 is released (MAXTABLE issue)

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Fen" == Fen Labalme <address@hidden> writes:

Fen> Hi - 

Hi!

Never write to individuals.

Fen> I have a vary large grammar (think SQL+PL/SQL+extensions) that
Fen> overflows Bison's MAXTABLE setting.  

It is a known problem, but changing this requires a walk through the
whole engine, which is currently being done.  This should be part of
the changes of the next major release (maybe 2.0).

Fen> Simply doubling MAXTABLE breaks things internal to Bison.  So I
Fen> have had to switch to COCOM's MSTA version of yacc and live with
Fen> (among other things) a *much* larger object file.

Fen> Are there any plans to enable Bison to handle larger grammars?