[help-bison] large strings, was Re: newbie

[James Long]

Thanks for the feedback. The parser really does need to refer to  
large strings, these are descriptions of very large biological  
networks with motifs that include thousands of genes, with  
potentially tens of thousands total. The parser then turns them into  
Systems Biology Markup Language (see http://range.sf.net for code).  
But I didn't know that the string could be a file, can you give me a  
pointer to some documentation for that?

Thanks,

Jim
--

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
James Long
Biotechnology Computing Research Group
University of Alaska
jim.long|at|alaska.edu
http://biotech.inbre.alaska.edu
(907) 474-5769
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



On Dec 14, 2007, at 5:32 AM, Laurence Finston wrote:

> This subject came up recently.
>
> If I saw this in a parser, I would suspect that it was malicious code.
>
> It's not just too big, there is no reason for it.  If any symbol in a
> parser really needed to refer to a string of this size, it should  
> probably
> be referring to a file instead.
>
> By the way, it would probably be a good idea for you to choose more
> descriptive subjects.  The subject "newbie" made me think this was  
> spam
> and I very nearly deleted it.  "[help-bison]" is not added  
> automatically.
>
> Laurence Finston
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, James Long wrote:
>
> > I've answered my own question. The requested semantic stack for
> > string[1000000] is too big.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim
> > --
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > James Long
> > Biotechnology Computing Research Group
> > University of Alaska
> > jim.long|at|alaska.edu
> > http://biotech.inbre.alaska.edu
> > (907) 474-5769
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 13, 2007, at 11:37 AM, James Long wrote:
> >
> > > Can someone tell me why I might get a segfault in yyparse() at
> > >
> > > YYSTYPE *yyvs = yyvsa;
> > >
> > > I think it has something to do with
> > >
> > > %union
> > > {
> > >  char string[1000000];
> > > }
> > >
> > > which works fine with yacc.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jim
> > > --
> > >
> > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > > James Long
> > > Biotechnology Computing Research Group
> > > University of Alaska
> > > jim.long|at|alaska.edu
> > > http://biotech.inbre.alaska.edu
> > > (907) 474-5769
> > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > address@hidden http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison