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- The files in this directory contain the ANSI C grammar from the April 30, 1985
- draft of the proposed standard. This copy also incorporates all bug fixes I
- have seen since the last two postings. With a little work this grammar can
- be made to parse the C that most of us know and love (sort of).
-
- There is one bug fix to the grammar that is in this posting. On line 295
- of gram.y it previously read declaration_specifiers instead of
- type_specifier_list as it does now. I believe the folks at the ANSI committee
- made a mistake since if you replace the line with what the original read
- you will end up with 16 shift/reduce errors and 2 reduce/reduce errors
- (the good ones). As it is, it only has 1 shift/reduce error that occurs
- on the if/else construct. YACC creates the correct parser and I don't want
- to ugly my grammar up.
-
- Anyway, all cumquats unite and generate this sucker. Then just sit and play
- with it. Remember, the grammar accepts things like
-
- "Hello, world"++;
- --1.23456;
- *'a'
-
- but this is not a bug, but simply a shuffling of the checking into the
- semantic analysis. If you want to hack it up to do lvalue and rvalue
- checking, I'm sure the ANSI committee would be glad to have your changes.
- Don't send'em to me though. I don't want'em. Wear this in good health.
-
- Jeff Lee
- gatech!jeff jeff@gatech jeff%gatech.CSNet@CSNet-Relay.ARPA
-