Re: Unable to create a chain called "trace"

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
> > I don't see a solution, perhaps add dummy bison rule(s)
> > to explicitly signal closure of e.g. a rule context?
> 
> We can't influence start conditions from within bison (if that's what
> you had in mind).

Why not?  in scanner.l:

void scanner_pop_start_cond(void *scanner)
{
        yy_pop_state(scanner);
}

And then call it from bison as 'scanner_pop_start_cond(nft->scanner)'.

Needs %stack in scanner.l so yy_pop_state() is defined.

bison has more clue as to when a expression/rule/set block etc
has finished parsing than the scanner.

Not sure tracking { } nesting depth is enough with a pure scanner.l
approach.