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Suppressing Conflict Warnings
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Bison normally warns if there are any conflicts in the grammar
(Shift/Reduce), but most real grammars
have harmless shift/reduce conflicts which are resolved in a
predictable way and would be difficult to eliminate. It is desirable
to suppress the warning about these conflicts unless the number of
conflicts changes. You can do this with the `%expect' declaration.
The declaration looks like this:
%expect N
Here N is a decimal integer. The declaration says there should be no
warning if there are N shift/reduce conflicts and no reduce/reduce
conflicts. The usual warning is given if there are either more or fewer
conflicts, or if there are any reduce/reduce conflicts.
In general, using `%expect' involves these steps:
* Compile your grammar without `%expect'. Use the `-v' option to
get a verbose list of where the conflicts occur. Bison will also
print the number of conflicts.
* Check each of the conflicts to make sure that Bison's default
resolution is what you really want. If not, rewrite the grammar
and go back to the beginning.
* Add an `%expect' declaration, copying the number N from the number
which Bison printed.
Now Bison will stop annoying you about the conflicts you have
checked, but it will warn you again if changes in the grammar result in
additional conflicts.