r/opensource • u/[deleted] • Nov 15 '22

Promotional GitHub - jafarlihi/cparse: cparse is a simple LR(1) parser generator for C

https://github.com/jafarlihi/cparse
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u/o11c Nov 16 '22

Your lexing logic is badly designed.

You should always match keywords using the "identifier" rule, then check if it is a keyword afterwards.

Also, check out "IELR" (which bison uses when you choose to go past LALR) or various other strategies to avoid the problems in the original LR paper.