Re: yytname woes
Hans Åberg <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:14:55 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.parsers.bison.general |
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> On Nov 12, 2023, at 18:18, James K. Lowden <[email protected]> = wrote: >=20 > On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:52:02 +0100 > Hans =C3=85berg <[email protected]> wrote: >=20 >>> 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. >=20 > I disagree. Bison might know how to do that, but "the parser" does > not. Read the generated parser code: Error message strings are generated by = translating token numbers into symbol names, first into the = symbol-number mentioned. > 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. It generates an error message string, which one is expected to use. Not = the internal tables directly.