Re: Muscle tables and obstacks

[Akim Demaille]

Le 3 juin 06 à 02:40, Satya Kiran a écrit :

> hi Akim,
> Can you demystify muscle_table and Obstacks for me please?; what is a
> muscle_table used for? I get a hazy idea of Obstacks, but I am not
> clear what this kind of data structure is for.. how does it work and
> why is it there..

Consider obstacks to be growing strings.

So called muscles animate the skeletons: they end as M4 macros
that are processed by M4 to trasnform the skeleton into parsers.