Re: [Caml-list] Ocamlyacc reentrancy

[Eckart Goehler <goehler@astro.uni-tuebingen.de>]

On Sat, 1 May 2004, skaller wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 14:47, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > Apparently the Parser module should be reentrant because it is careful to save
> > and load its global data.
> >
> > http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/caml-list/0258.html
>
> Thanks for that link.  Xavier says:
>
> "The module Parsing is supposed to be reentrant. Yes, there's some
> global state inside, but we're careful to save and restore it across
> entries. If you have a program demonstrating non-reentrance, please
> send it to me privately and I'll try to fix that."

I only remark that ocamlyacc produces code which might be reentrant but
fails for the original problem mentioned because the parsing function is
not recursive.

For fixing that I refer to an already posted article:

http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200309/msg00258.html


cheers

ekat

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