Re: QUESTION: is bison recursive?

[Tadej Borovšak]

Dne 27.07.2014 (ned) ob 20:29 +0200 je Hans Aberg napisal(a):
> On 27 Jul 2014, at 02:35, sean nakasone <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know if bison is recursive?  Meaning, does the bison build call 
> > bison?
> 
> Yes, the file src/parse-gram.y is used to make the Bison parser.
> 
> > The reason I'm asking is because I'm going through the bison 3.0 makefile 
> > and I don't see where bison is actually being called.
> 
> A grep on the sources shows
>   Makefile.in:  src/parse-gram.y
> but I’m not sure how exactly its called. Perhaps Akim, which I think 
> implemented it, can tell.

If I'm not mistaken, make has built-in rule for *.y -> *.c conversion.
This is probably why no explicit rule is to be found in build system.

Cheers,
Tadej

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