Re: variables in yyparse

[Paul Hilfinger]

 > What I don't quite understand is why there needs to be a heap at all in the
 > `bss' section, when it seems to me from your explanations and Paul's that tw
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 > addresses, a lower and upper bound, would be sufficient.  Or is the `bss'
 > section now used only for the stack?  

The bss section, being of fixed size, is used neither for the stack
nor the heap, but rather for uninitialized (actually, 0-initialized)
static variables, as declared in C by

    int x;    /* External linkage */
or
    static int y;    /* File-scope only */

at the outer level.