On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:42:12AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > $ yacc gc/go.y > yacc: e - line 120 of "go.y", syntax error > %error-verbose > ^ > This is a bison dropping. I haven't looked at the go sources > but hopefully this can be worked around easily. > It resolves to a bunch of #ifdefs, #undefs, #defines, which can be corrected easily. But the generated code is full of issues that 8c does not like to compile, for various reasons (I'll post the details elsewhere when I get a chance. I don't know if that applies to byacc. Thanks for raising it, I do have access to byacc on NetBSD and of course I can try to port that to Plan 9 rather than bison. We'll see...
> I didn't actually run any of the generated code but given the > -y flag I have hopes.... In the worst can you can write a > bison script around byacc and massage what needs to be. > > Try compiling /usr/src/usr.bin/yacc from *BSD. Let me know if > you run into problems. I will, both, once I've refreshed my recollections and tried some tangential possibilities. Thanks to both of you for the help. ++L
