Dump bison

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Jun 23 05:21:51 UTC 2018


John D. Bell <jdb at systemsartisans.com>:
> 
> Gentlemen,
> 
> 
>     *Years* ago I used to use yacc, but I quit before bison became the
> _de-facto_ standard.  Thus, upon reading its man page I was surprised
> and pleased to see the following command-line options available:
> 
>   --debug
> 
>   --report=THINGS
> 
> THINGS comes from the set of 'state', 'itemset', 'lookahead', 'solved'
> (shift/reduce conflicts), or 'all'
> 
> 
>     Does any of this help?

They help with debugging.  Not really with testing.
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