Re: Error recovery in C++ with Bison 2.3

[Hans Aberg]

On 2 Jan 2007, at 23:04, Bill Lear wrote:

> I have written a rather extensive parser in C++, using Bison 2.3,
> basing it on the example, calc++, provided with the Bison  
> distribution.
>
> I would like to be able to recover from simple errors in the input
> file by making note of them, providing a warning, and continuing on.
...
>     CLASS PID;
>     CLASS POD;
>
> but fails on this:
>
>     CLASS pid;

Since you do not detail much, it us hard to tell. But the Bison  
manual has an example how to use GLR to handle certain constructs in  
the C++ language. Error recovery should not, LALR, be used for the  
parsing itself, as it is too crude.

  Hans Aberg