yacc

[Dominic Dunlop]

In article <340 at uplog.se> thomas at uplog.UUCP (Thomas Hameenaho) writes:
>In article <895 at ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> John.Cavanaugh at StPaul.NCR.COM
>>	(John David Cavanaugh) writes:
>>... when I run yacc, I get a message saying, "fatal error:
>>too many states."
>>
>>My question is:  is there any way I can increase the number of states?
>
>Not without recompiling yacc. [to increase table sizes]

I have this strong recollection that, at the recent London System V,
release 4 developers' conference, I heard that, at last, yacc's tables were
to be made dynamic, an announcement greeted with a buzz of approval from
the audience.  But I can't find any statement to that effect in the
distributed documentation or in the notes I took.  Had I dozed off?  Was I
dreaming?  Can anybody confirm or deny this story?

(Not that it helps John much.  He needs a fix now, not in a year.)
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
domo at sphinx.co.uk  domo at riddle.uucp