Re: [ASN.1] asn specification

2001-10-25 Thread John Larmouth
I am not a BNF expert, so just a layman's question: Can the problems you are having be mended by simply changing the BNF in the ASN.1, or would a mend affect the actual notation being defined? If the former, do you have (or could you produce) a complete set of proposed changes to the BNF that

Re: [ASN.1] asn specification

2001-10-25 Thread Ed Day
Subject: Re: [ASN.1] asn specification On Thu, 18 October 2001, Olivier Dubuisson wrote: Andrew Sutton wrote: hi, i've gotten bored so i've been working on an ASN.1 compiler based on the 97 specifications. actually, it was going pretty well until i realized that i had mistyped

Re: [ASN.1] asn specification

2001-10-25 Thread Bancroft Scott
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Ed Day wrote: We have dealt with this problem and others like it using the infamous lex tie-in that is prevalent in the SNACC code. That is to say swallow the whole thing up and deal with it on the back end essentially emulating multi-token look aheads. It isn't

Re: [ASN.1] asn specification

2001-10-19 Thread Olivier Dubuisson
Andrew Sutton wrote: hi, i've gotten bored so i've been working on an ASN.1 compiler based on the 97 specifications. actually, it was going pretty well until i realized that i had mistyped the SymbolsImported productions. anyway, i ran into a problem and had some feedback or could