Re: YYABORT in GLR (was: Re: (no subject))

[Hans Aberg]

On 12 Dec 2006, at 20:39, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > > I'm working on a prototype of a COBOL-parser in bison using a GLR- 
> > > parser.
> > > I have a question considering YYABORT:
> > > When the parsing-process uses more then one parser, and one of them
> > > encounters this macro, will only this parser stop, or all of  
> > > them.  And if
> > > the second is the case, is there a way to accomplish the first?
> >
> > The first case. You can check out, in the parser that Bison  
> > writes, what the
> > macro does: it just jumps to a place where parser is terminated.
>
> No, it's the second case.  Maybe there's a confusion in terminology  
> here:
> YYABORT stops the single GLR parser (that is, yyparse).

Sorry: I missed the the GLR part, speaking about non-GLR. :-)  
(Perhaps too much going on right now.)

  Hans Aberg