Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Paul" == Paul Hilfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In fact, this issue did get discussed when the GLR skeleton got > introduced, and the language (or lack of it) is, AIR, deliberate on > the part of the lead maintainers at the time. On consideration, I > would prefer that the same ter

Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Sylvain Schmitz
Paul Hilfinger wrote: In fact, this issue did get discussed when the GLR skeleton got introduced, and the language (or lack of it) is, AIR, deliberate on the part of the lead maintainers at the time. On consideration, I would prefer that the same terms apply to all skeletons as now apply to the C

Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Sylvain" == Sylvain Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Hilfinger wrote: >> In fact, this issue did get discussed when the GLR skeleton got >> introduced, and the language (or lack of it) is, AIR, deliberate on >> the part of the lead maintainers at the time. On consideration, I

Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Hans Aberg
It would simplify if the supported Bison skeleton files were distributed under the same copyright. The unsupported skeleton files, if any, should be put in a special place, either in the distribution, or outside it, I think. At 12:50 -0800 2005/03/09, Paul Hilfinger wrote: >In fact, this issue did

Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Hans Aberg
At 10:53 +0100 2005/03/10, Sylvain Schmitz wrote: >Paul Hilfinger wrote: > >> In fact, this issue did get discussed when the GLR skeleton got >> introduced, and the language (or lack of it) is, AIR, deliberate on >> the part of the lead maintainers at the time. On consideration, I >> would prefer

Re: ERROR: version file does not exist or are not readable

2005-03-10 Thread Hans Aberg
Please keep the cc to help-bison, so others know. When you get the right bison installed, its version can be checked by the --version option. At 08:42 +0100 2005/03/10, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The error where not generated by bison. When I test with "which bison" I found that the computer use

Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Eggert
Sylvain Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It might have been true when these skeleton first appeared, but I > don't think it is any more, since both commercial and open source > implementations exist now. OK, let's solve the problem. The first step: could you please come up with a brief list

Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Eggert
Hans Aberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the output of a copyrighted program is rarely viewed as being > covered by the copyright of the program that made it. No, actually it's quite common. For example, if I run the traditional /usr/ccs/bin/yacc that is shipped with Solaris 9, the output file y

problem linking program containing bison-generated parser

2005-03-10 Thread Volker Wegert
Hello, I'm currently trying to gain some experience with flex and bison. In one of my projects, I'd like to use these two tools together with some Qt classes. I'm not trying to create an object-oriented parser, I'm just using Qt's string and list objects as I'm much more familiar with them. The i

Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Hilfinger
> Hans Aberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the output of a copyrighted program is rarely viewed as being > > covered by the copyright of the program that made it. > > No, actually it's quite common. For example, if I run the traditional > /usr/ccs/bin/yacc that is shipped with Solari

Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Eggert
Paul Hilfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I believe that the Berne convention gives no standing > whatever to written copyright notices of this sort. Instead, if I > produce a copyrightable work, that work is protected by copyright > unless I take steps to make it otherwise. Yes, th

Re: Question about "Conditions for Using Bison" in Bison 2.0 documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Hans Aberg
[For some unknown reason, my email to Paul Eggert bounces.] Paul Eggert's comment does not prove commonness :-), except perhaps in the case of Yacc and related programs. When I try to think about computer software in general, it always is the principle that Paul Hilfinger indicates. If the progra

Re: problem linking program containing bison-generated parser

2005-03-10 Thread Alfonso Urdaneta
Volker Wegert wrote: However, I get the following error message during linking (output abbreviated): Stupid question, but I assume that you are aware of the name mangling in C++ and are properly externing your declarations to compensate ? -- alfonso e. urdaneta www.red82.com - are you ready ? ___

Re: Identifying rule responsible for lookahead

2005-03-10 Thread Alfonso Urdaneta
No, there is no such Bison design doc's: Only reading the Bison source code itself. (Apart from that somebody wrote something in Spanish, I think.) link ? -- alfonso e. urdaneta www.red82.com - are you ready ? ___ Help-bison@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/m