Re: yytname woes

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:52:02 +0100
Hans =C5berg <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Let's start, shall we, with "is it a bug"? =20
>=20
> The parser knows how to translate token numbers into names for error
> messages, but there is no API for that as far as I know.

I disagree.  Bison might know how to do that, but "the parser" does
not.  Bison is a parser-generator.  I'm writing "the parser" using
Bison. I implemented yyerror(). I'm producing the error message using
the only vehicle I've found, yytname.  It's insufficient to the
purpose. =20

I now count 4 nonanswers to any of my questions.  I ask again:=20

	Is it a bug? =20

If my yytname array is not malformed, how can it be used?  If it cannot
be used, then it is too kind to call it merely "obsolescent". =20

I'm not asking to be annoying.  I'm asking to be polite, to make sure I
didn't miss anything before reporting a bug.  If no one here knows,
I'll report it as a bug, and sort things out there. =20

--jkl