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- In article <294@isis.UUCP> dmiruke@isis.UUCP asks:
- > Sometime back someone posted a question about an error in the LALR grammar
- > given in the book 'C - A Reference Manual' by Harbison and Steele, in which
- > there are two productions present that don't seem to be used anywhere at all
- > in the rest of the grammar. I do not know if any solution or improvement was
- > suggested by someone about this. If someone has any idea would like to hear
- > about it.
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- In May 1985, Don Taylor posted the following corrections:
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- | There are a handful of typo's in the lalr(1) grammar in appendix c [of H&S].
- | A letter to them resulted in a prompt reply from Mr. Harbison, and I quote
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- | -Change all occurences of "..._ctype>" to "..._type>".
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- | -Remove definitions of "<008>" and "<key_dcltr>"; they are not needed.
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- | -"<decl or stmt>" should be "<dcl_or_stmt>".
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- | In addition, if you have the first printing of the book, the production
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- | <cast_exp> ::= ( <typename_declaration> ) <prefix_exp>
- | should be
- | <cast_exp> ::= ( <typename_declaration> ) <cast_exp>
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- | You should also know that this grammar does not accomodate C's "old" form of
- | initializers and compound assignments.
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- Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax.uucp
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