Blasphemy

flisakow@cs.wisc.edu (Shaun Flisakowski)
Sat, 18 Feb 1995 15:56:42 GMT

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From: flisakow@cs.wisc.edu (Shaun Flisakowski)
Keywords: C, errors, parse, books
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 15:56:42 GMT

I have the fourth edition of "C - A Reference Manual" by
Harbison & Steele. Much to my distress, the grammar in the
back of the book appears to be riddled with bugs.


Specifically:


pg 425: The first item of the production for 'compound-statement'
        is 'inner-declaration-list(opt)'. There is no such thing
        in the grammar, I replaced with 'declaration-list(opt)'.


pg 425: In the production for 'declaration',
        'initialized-declarator-list' should be optional.


pg 433: The production 'top-level-declaration-list' is not used
        in the grammar, it appears it is not needed (since multiple
        top-level-declaration are split apart in 'translation-unit')




I would appreciate it if someone could either:


1) Point me in the direction of a error-free version of the C
      grammar (cheap).


2) Point out any bugs I have missed in the Harbison & Steele
      grammar, and let me know if the "fixes" I made are valid.


Thanks,


Shaun (flisakow@cs)
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