Re: ANSI C grammar without shift-reduce conflict on 'ELSE'

Rares GalaN wrote:

I'm trying to use the ANSI C Grammar from
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ANSI-C-grammar-y.html and I'm getting a
"shift - reduce on ELSE" error. I'm quite new with this, so it would
really be useful if I could get a grammar that's conflict free. Any
suggestions will help.

The C grammar is not conflict free. I thought shift-reduce was
a warning in yacc.

-- glen
[It is indeed a warning, but it also warns you that the generated
parser doesn't quite parse the input grammar. -John]

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