yacc state space

[John Tupper]

>Yacc would no longer work on it.  It would give me a fatal error saying
>that state space was exceeded and just die.

Look at the sources to yacc. There is a file called "dextern". Inside
are several #define constants defining the number of states and rules and
countless other things that yacc can handle. If you change these and re-make
yacc, it should be able to handle any grammer (if you make them big enough).
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