Re: how to do nested calls to yyparse ?

[Hans Aberg]

At 09:43 +0100 2002/11/08, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>Thanks. I already did look at that, but the docs got me confused.
>Does this really mean that nested yyparse calls are OK on pure parsers?

If a pure parser is properly hooked up, each new instantiation should act
on a wholly new set of variables. So it should be safe as long as one does
not instantiate different threads from the safe yyparse manipulating the
same local variables.

>The second part of the story (not sure whether this belongs here, though)
>is, how should I modify the flex analyzer if I use %pure_parser in the
>parser ?

In Flex terminology, it is called a reentrant scanner; see manual of latest
beta at
    ftp://ftp.uncg.edu/people/wlestes/

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  Hans Aberg