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5.8.4 Unreachable States

If there exists no sequence of transitions from the parser’s start state to some state s, then Bison considers s to be an unreachable state. A state can become unreachable during conflict resolution if Bison disables a shift action leading to it from a predecessor state.

By default, Bison removes unreachable states from the parser after conflict resolution because they are useless in the generated parser. However, keeping unreachable states is sometimes useful when trying to understand the relationship between the parser and the grammar.

Directive: %define lr.keep-unreachable-state value

Request that Bison allow unreachable states to remain in the parser tables. value must be a Boolean. The default is false.

There are a few caveats to consider:


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