Is right recursive C grammar necessary?

[Mark Hall]

In article <746 at garth.UUCP> smryan at garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
>In article <433 at dmk3b1.UUCP> dmk at dmk3b1.UUCP (David Keaton) writes:
>>     No, and in fact if you're using yacc you want left recursion
>>instead, wherever reasonable.  This is because ... the stack [will]
>>get huge.
>
>... On VM it shouldn't matter,
>unless YACC is incredibly stupid and Fortranish by using a fixed size
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>stack. 
>

So.... you've never seen the fabled ``yacc stack overflow''
message.  I have.  Of course, it's easy to make the stack size
bigger, by recompiling the y.tab.c file.  But you never know when IT
is going to happen.

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