I just tried menhir. Looks great ! Problem is it generates an invalid
myParser.ml file:
it contains a integer

_menhir_shifted = 4611686018427387903;

which way beyond int32 integers. I guess it comes from my grammar file which
is certainly very bad, but in any case I should receive some insult from
menhir first no ?
I guess this error is linked to the Array.make exception that I get when I
use ocamlyacc!

J

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM, bluestorm <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed, Ocaml arrays are limited in length, and the parser generator may
> use arrays internally that would run into the limit for specific grammars (I
> don't think the memory used is linear in the size of the input in the common
> use cases).
>
> You may be interested in trying to use menhir [1] as a Parser generator
> instead of ocamlyacc. Menhir is mostly compatible with ocamlyacc, but
> doesn't use the Parsing module. While I don't think it as done anything
> specific to support larger input files, the issue may go away (or don't
> appear on the input sizes you need) using the different menhir
> implementation.
>
>  [1] http://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/menhir/<http://gallium.inria.fr/%7Efpottier/menhir/>
>
> Of course, patching ocamlyacc (or any other generator) to fix this issue
> would be the best way to handle this. But still, switching to a different
> but 90% compatible software may be a least-effort solution for you --
> provided it doesn't have the same issue.
>