Re: Flex scanner stops when bison is calling

[Hans Aberg]

If you do not get any reply here, it could he that you sent it in to the
wrong list. It should perhaps be the Mind Reading list or the Help Bison
list with a better description of your problem. :-)

At 12:48 +0000 2003/05/25, Robert Williamson wrote:
>I am working with bison 1.75 and flex 2.5.4 on SunOS 5.7 (Solaris). I'm not
>sure why, but when I generate a parser with my scanner, the scanner only
>reports the first token. I'm sure the scanner is ok, because I have used it to
>scan a variety of different inputs successfully. My best guess is that bison
>only calls yylex once.
>
>Running with bison generates the following output:
>
>Starting parse
>Entering state 0
>Reducing via rule 3 (line 77),  -> DeclList
>DeclList ->
>state stack now 0
>Entering state 2
>Reading a token: --(end of buffer or a NUL)
>--accepting rule at line 73 ("void main() {")
>--accepting rule at line 95 ("void")
>Next token is token T_Void ()
>Shifting token 258 (T_Void), Entering state 4
>Reducing via rule 16 (line 123), T_Void  -> Type
>Type -> void
>
>The problem seems to be the "--(end of buffer or a NUL)", which suggests to me
>that the scanner has stopped processing the input.
>
>Is this a common difficuly? I suspect there may be a simple solution to my
>problem.
>
>Any help appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>
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