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Re: too many gotos
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Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: too many gotos |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:36:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
>> Unless someone knows a means to generate a grammar with arbitrarily
>> many gotos. That would allow us to test the output.
> Don't know offhand, but that patch seems quite reasonable as far as it
> goes. A couple of things, though. It should use size_t rather than
> unsigned int (since the quantities in question in general might
> overrun 32-bit counters on a 64-bit host).
Well, are you serious? Can you possibly imagine a (real life) grammar
exceeding our new boundary? Anyway, I agree your change doesn't cost
much, so it's fine with me.
> Also, GOTO_NUMBER_MAXIMUM should be revamped and/or removed
> accordingly.
Thanks for this part. I completely missed it.
> I installed the following. Of course this is not at all a complete
> fix for the "grammar is too large for 16 (or 32) bits" problem, but at
> least it's a step in the right direction.
I'm not sure there remain many arbitrary limits.
Could you also update the NEWS file?