Re: Fwd: Q: processing multiple mixed data streams using bison

[Hans Aberg]

At 23:53 -0700 2005/05/28, Mohit Jaggi wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am trying to process multiple interleaved streams of data in a
> single process/thread using yacc/bison. Let us say I am running a
> server and have thousands of clients sending me requests at the same
> time.
>
> It seems the parser code uses global variables to keep its state while
> parsing. I guess that one can introduce code to save all the variables
> and restore them...has anyone tried this before?

You do not say what Bison version you are using. I think that the 
C-parser, by now, is fully pure. There has recently been released a 
new version Bison 2005/05/23, see
  List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/help-bison>

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  Hans Aberg