Hi John, > Le 4 juil. 2020 à 17:02, John P. Hartmann <jphartm...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > For the scanner and parser I maintain on UNIX and then transport to the > EBCDIC world of the mainframe, I had to write my own scanner, but I can get > by with Bison as long as I don't use character constants in rules (IBM 360 > assembler in rules does work).
I don't think you ever posted a snippet of that grammar of yours. I suppose there are IP issues, but maybe you could share just a small bit, or a fake example, so that we can have a better idea of it? > There were a few other hoops, such as no more a tables-only bison option. > > For other work, which is all in C, flex seems satisfactory. Call me > oldfashioned. Actually fashion is often wrong, so "old-fashioned" sounds like "wise". Cheers!
