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The %union
directive works as for C, see The Union Declaration. In
particular it produces a genuine union
, which have a few specific
features in C++.
YYSTYPE
is defined but its use is discouraged: rather you
should refer to the parser’s encapsulated type
yy::parser::semantic_type
.
Because objects have to be stored via pointers, memory is not
reclaimed automatically: using the %destructor
directive is the
only means to avoid leaks. See section Freeing Discarded Symbols.