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Baptiste Daroussin 98e903e7a0 Import byacc from invisible island, it brings us lots of compatibilities with
bison, keeping full compatibility with our previous yacc implementation.

Also bring the ability to create reentrant parser

This fix bin/140309 [1]

PR:		bin/140309 [1]
Submitted by:	Philippe Pepiot <ksh@philpep.org> [1]
Approved by:	des (mentor)
MFC after:	1 month
2012-05-21 13:31:26 +00:00

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Berkeley Yacc reflects its origins. The reason so many routines
use exactly six register variables is that Berkeley Yacc was
developed on a VAX using PCC. PCC placed at most six variables
in registers. I went to considerable effort to find which six
variables most belonged in registers. Changes in machines and
compilers make that effort worthless, perhaps even harmful.
The code contains many instances where address calculations are
performed in particular ways to optimize the code for the VAX.