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From:	Denis Bernard <dbernard AT teleglobe DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: YACC and BISON in DJGPP 2.0
Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 1996 12:02:20 -0400
Organization:	Teleglobe Canada Inc.
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ACTA Inc wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>         Thank you for your replay to my previous query about the YACC
> "feature" in DJGPP.
> 
>         Almost every one suggested BISON.
> 
>         So I tried BISON. But I still have difficulties to compile my
> program with Bison.
> 
>         According to the O'Reily' s book on YACC and LEX, bison produce a
> filename.tab.c file unlike YACC which produces a
> y.tab.c file. I noticed that in DJGPP 2.0, the bison generates a file
> filename_tab.c after I run bison -y -d filename.y.
> 
>         For my particular case, my YACC file name is grammar.y, and the
> bison in DJGPP 2.0 produce a file called "grammar_.c" if I just type "bison
> -y -d grammar.y ".   There is no any error message.
> 
>         Yet if I directly use makefile, I noticed that bison generates a
> y_tab.c and y_tab.h, and the make process determined with
> an error of " ***[grammar.y] error -1" at line "mv -f y_tab.c grammar.c"
> 
>         What I have done wrong ?
> 
>         The differences between my unix version and DJGPP  version are the
> file names, which appears in both makefile and
> the ".c" files due to the change of the name of header files.
> 
>         Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> ACTA Inc.
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bison generates things this way...

bison -d file.y produces file_tab.c and file_tab.h

and

bison -y -d file.y produces y_tab.c and y_tab.h

So it's up to you to use the -y switch or not.

Denis.

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