From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
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Subject: Re: Hiding globals when using flex/bison in a library
Date: 10 Jul 1999 12:16:06 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Anton Helm (tony AT nt DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at) wrote:
: I have a (C-)program that uses 3 different flex/bison pairs to
: parse diferent input files. This works fine with renaming the
: yy_ to something else by commandline switch.
: 
: Now I would like to put some parts of the program into a library.
: The goal is to hide all internal functions of the library from
: the user (using statics and local variables only).
: But flex and bison use global variables to exchange information
: (and define some others too).
: Any idea how to hide these global variables and functions from 
: the user of the library, so they don't conflict with any functions
: and globals on the user's part of the program ?

The easiest solution is not to hide them at all, but use the feature
you mentioned and name them __anton_helm_yy_something_or_other.

An another way (which I don't know works) could be #include the C
files (yes, this is BAD) into one single file and make a little sed
script that makes the global varables static.


Skunk Anansie, Paranoid & Sunburnt,

							MartinS