On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, tim wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 22:18 -0400, Joel E. Denny wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, tim wrote: > > > > > My suggestion is that until the option is fixed > > > > > > a) The option produce a warning that it's ignored > > > b) The documentation should reflect that it doesn't work. > > > > It looks like that's been broken for a long time. Did it ever work? Do > > we need it? Maybe Paul Eggert or Akim Demaille can comment. > > > > --no-parser would be quite useful to me. I want to use the parse tables > in a lisp program. The less C code I have to filter out the better.
Unfortunately, it looks like almost no implementation currently exists. Bison parses --no-parser (but not %no-parser despite being documented) and forgets it. I just had a look in TODO. It looks like Akim was also wondering whether we needed to keep --no-parser. Would an XML encoding of the .output file suffice for your purposes? I've seen many discussions expressing a desire for that implementation.
