Re: I am confused after reading codes of PostgreSQL three week

2011/3/20 Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:50:01AM +0800, hom wrote:
>> I trace into scan.c because I want to known how the paser tree is
>> built and I debug the source step by step.
>> Then the eclipse pick up the scan.I and the excute order does not
>> match the code.
>
> Umm, the scanners produced by flex and bison are huge table driven
> parsers, which makes following what is happening in terms of "parse
> tree" extremely difficult to follow.
>
> If you want to follow what's happening, see the following page:
>
> http://dinosaur.compilertools.net/bison/bison_11.html
>
> Which will cause the parser to dump what it's doing. As the page says,
> stepping through the processed file reveals little, becuase it's the
> same code being executed over and over again, only the variables
> change.
>
> Have a nice day,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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Thanks Martijn.
I am trying lex and yacc on my Linux. :)

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Best Wishes!

                                     hom