Re: Option for Bison like Flex's %option prefix

[Kelly Leahy]

--- Chris Verges <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am writing a couple of parsers using Bison and
> Flex that have to be 
> compiled into the same application.  This means the
> -P/-p options have 
> been a God-send.  But I wanted to make it so that
> the user doesn't have 
> to know how to pass in the -P and -p options to
> correctly generate the file.
> 
> Flex has an option that helps with this:
> 
>       %option prefix="my_custom_prefix_"
> 
> I have been searching for a similar option in Bison
> that I can place in 
> the .y file header section, but cannot seem to find
> one.  So now I ask 
> the Bison mailing list -- does this exist?!  (And if
> not, why not?  It's 
> a *really* nice way to do things, including all of
> the command-line 
> options in the actual .y file itself.)
> 

Chris, 

see %name-prefix in

http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_mono/bison.html#Bison-Options

Best of luck,
Kelly