RE: bison puts too many tokens in the semantic value

[Richard Garand]

btw, i'm using "GNU bison version 1.28" in cygwin.

Richard Garand
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> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:47 AM
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> Subject: bison puts too many tokens in the semantic value
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> I have a rule in a bison file(name:   '"' NAME '"', where name is
> alphanumeric characters), but when I try to use $2 (when NAME="abc") it
> gives me abc". Why does it add the " at the end, even if it's
> another token?
> I have another rules, package_info: package_open name pkdoc;, and
> when name
> is "abc" (semantic value: abc) and pkdoc is 'documentation "def"\n'
> (semantic value: def), it says $2 is 'abc" documentation
> "def"\n". Why does
> it go to the end of the line in one token? Are the token numbers just
> pointers into the input string? they should be null-terminated
> copies of the
> input.
>
> Richard Garand
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> "The original, complete, and unadulterated Descent! Play the game that
> turned 3D action on its head and made it puke!" - CGW
>
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