From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: jpr@jpr.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bison
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 03:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <20000730121950.A15491@quatramaran.ens.fr>
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X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00988.html

On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:51:46AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Marc Espie wrote:
> > Actually, the only language that requires bison is java (pure parser).
> > 
> > C, C++ and objective C are usually happy with byacc [...]
> 
> Isn't that a bug in the Java frontend then (that should be fixed)?

No, that one is reasonable. You would have heard from me otherwise :)

No version of yacc that I know of supports pure parsers yet, which is what
java wants, and what bison supports.