Bison: Problem with %union

[cwhite]

Hi! I've included some of my classes in the union in my grammar file:

%union
{
    int int_type;
    char* string_type;
    PNode* pNode;
}
 
%type <int_type>     programs 
%type <pNode>           program
 

Using 'Bison -d program.ypp', what happens is Bison places this in both .hpp and .cpp generated files as

typedef union YYSTYPE {
    int int_type;
    char* string_type;
    PNode* pNode;
} YYSTYPE;
 

The problem is the .hpp file doesn't have the #include "PNode.h" that it needs to make sense of PNode* so it produces errors. When I try to put #include "PNode.h" in the .hpp file I get a hundred errors like this:

c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\cstdio(17) : error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before ':'
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\cstdio(17) : error C2059: syntax error : ':'

Removing this part from the the .hpp file will also produce errors.

I'm using VS2003, Bison 2.1 and Flex 2.5.4a. I hope someone can help me with this. Thanks.

[weaknessforcats]

The problem is the .hpp file doesn't have the #include "PNode.h" that it needs to make sense of PNode* so it produces errors. When I try to put #include "PNode.h" in the .hpp file I get a hundred errors like this:

c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\cstdio(17) : error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before ':'
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\cstdio(17) : error C2059: syntax error : ':'

You can use a forward reference:

class PNode;           //forward reference
typedef union YYSTYPE {
    int int_type;
    char* string_type;
    PNode* pNode;
} YYSTYPE;
 

This is enough informattion for the compiler to allow a PNode* variable.

As to theVisual Studio errors, I would need to se your PNode.h and also to see where you included it. That is, before or after the incluce to cstdio.

Typically errors like this are caused by a) a missing semi-colon after a class/struct/union declaration or b) failing to have a null line as the last line of the header file.