Re: Label problems

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Hans" == Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:

Hans> At 00:25 -0800 2001/10/31, ROLAND wrote:
>> And what I mean with a label, is that when I try to scan a file
>> that contains the word 'eccmstate' my parser only reads 'eccmstat'
>> and then goes to the next word. Then when I try to analyze the
>> results from the parser (using FLEX), I get an error because of an
>> unknown label in the parsed file...

Hans> You do not give much hints of what your problems are. Here, one
Hans> might guess that you have successfully compiled the .l and .y
Hans> files using Flex/Bison, then successfully compiled their output
Hans> using a C compiler, and when you then run that program, reading
Hans> a file with it, it somehow cannot recognize the full word you
Hans> expect.

Hans> Right?

Hans> If so, the problem is that the Flex generated lexer is not
Hans> reading lexemes that same way as the one generated by lex, and
Hans> you need to check the Flex settings and perhaps grammar and
Hans> correct for that (unless there is a problem in the C code).

I agree with Hans.  And I'm quite sure the problem is not in Bison.

If I were you, I'd read the Flex and Bison docs about debugging
scanners and parsers at runtime, and try to see in the log what is
happening.