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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: "Steve Johnson" <scj@yaccman.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Archaic yacc C grammar
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 06:09:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wy3aebqak.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c27ddaaf0161a10ff46759d5678ad5e317283fc9@webmail.yaccman.com> (Steve Johnson's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:01:55 -0700")

Steve Johnson wrote:
> The closest I came was when we went from a single namespace for all
> structure names to a namespace for each structure, and references that
> were checked using the pointer type of the structure pointer.  My code
> was a nightmare, and some of the old Unix code was at least a bad
> dream.

How about this, pointer to int used as pointer to struct.

prlook( pp ) int *pp;{
        int j;
        pp = pp->lset;
....

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-31  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-28 21:34 Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-29  3:00 ` Steve Johnson
2018-10-29  7:31   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-29 17:52     ` Steve Johnson
2018-10-29 18:37       ` Warner Losh
2018-10-30  8:16         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-11-03 21:50           ` Steve Johnson
2018-10-29 19:02       ` David
2018-10-30 22:01         ` Steve Johnson
2018-10-31  0:58           ` Larry McVoy
2018-10-31 13:49             ` Clem Cole
2018-11-03 22:14             ` Steve Johnson
2018-10-31  6:09           ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2018-10-31 15:39 Noel Chiappa

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