Re: Bison and LR(1) Parsers

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Josling <address@hidden> writes:

Tim> Who is the official maintainer?

Jesse Thilo and myself.

BTW, please, keep bug-bison for bugs, and use help-bison for other
matters.  And Hans, please stop CCing to rms, he has other things to do.

Tim> All your comments make sense. I am just about to go off and get a
Tim> copy fo the Fortes paper. I did a search and he doesn't seem to
Tim> have patented it though there are patents in the LR parser space,
Tim> notably from IBM.

Tim> I will await an official verdict before writing anything.

I personally have no idea whether the new technology which have been
proposed for Bison would satisfy your needs.  That's probably what
first needs to be checked.

I start to think that CVS branch might be a good approach to Bison's
development.  But I hate them :)

Tim> The bison.simple also puts out some warnings when run with gcc in
Tim> pedantic mode - comparison of "signed and unsigned". Would
Tim> someone like a patch for this? I have already patched the version
Tim> on my system as I build gcc all the time and the messages annoyed
Tim> me.

Yep, this will be addressed.

Tim> I also have another question - is there anywhere I can download
Tim> the latest cvs version or whatever? I don't want to make a lot of
Tim> patches to an obsolete version.

Bison is on savannah and subversions.