On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:35:24 +0100 > "Steve Simon" <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > > > My understanding is that bison can be convinced to output some static > > tables which the Go authors munge into some C source (with awk). > > I wonder what it would take to add that feature to Plan 9's yacc. I'm > not normally one to suggest adding features, but if the authors of Go > found it useful I'm a bit inclined to think about it.
Now that's a suggestion that makes some sense. I'll see if I can figure out how Bison does it and if it is not too tightly coupled to bison-specific internals, I may be able to enhance yacc. Don't hold your breath. ++L
