Re: --no-parser options

[tim]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 22:18 -0400, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, tim wrote:
> 
> > My suggestion is that until the option is fixed
> > 
> > a) The option produce a warning that it's ignored
> > b) The documentation should reflect that it doesn't work.
> 
> It looks like that's been broken for a long time.  Did it ever work?  Do 
> we need it?  Maybe Paul Eggert or Akim Demaille can comment.
> 

--no-parser would be quite useful to me. I want to use the parse tables
in a lisp program. The less C code I have to filter out the better.

> > My suggestion is that 
> > c) If skeleton name given includes "/" or "\" it is assumed to be the
> > full pathname, otherwise it is assumed to be in the default directory.
> 
> This has already been implemented in CVS except it doesn't handle systems 
> that use "\".  Again, I would like to hear Paul's or Akim's advice on 
> whether Bison should worry about that.  I note that, even prior to this 
> %skeleton change, Bison's output_skeleton function in src/output.c assumed 
> that Bison's installation directory used only "/" as a directory 
> delimiter.

That's good - I'll start using the CVS version.

Tim Josling