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

[Mohit Jaggi]

Hans,
Thanks for the reply...I havn't tried any version yet. Do you think
that the latest version will support this and I won't have to
introduce custom code to save/restore its context?

Mohit.
On 5/29/05, Hans Aberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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>
> 
> Question about making Flex generating a pure lexer should be directed to:
>    List-Post: <mailto:address@hidden>
> --
>    Hans Aberg
>