From: pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Patch for BISON.SIM for C++
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 01:08:47 GMT
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ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) wrote:
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>And just out of curiosity, what is BISON.HAI? It comes with BISON.SIM, but
>it's only BISON.SIM that I've ever seen get incorporated into parsers by
>Bison.

Paul,

The original names, if I remember correctly, are "bison.simple" and
"bison.hairy", the difference being something to do with complex vs.
simple grammars.  The .SIM and .HAI extensions were obvious MSDOS
substitutes.  There may have been a command-line switch that told it
to use the hairy instead of the simple parser.  Or was that a
difference in the #includes one used?

<Sigh*> It's been too long, sorry I don't remember what it was,
exactly.  Even the file bison.texinfo (in the source dist) doesn't
mention it, nor the man-page nor the regular info file.

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