The %union declaration specifies the entire collection of possible
data types for semantic values. The keyword %union is followed by a
pair of braces containing the same thing that goes inside a union in
C.
For example:
%union {
double val;
symrec *tptr;
}
This says that the two alternative types are double and symrec
*. They are given names val and tptr; these names are used
in the %token and %type declarations to pick one of the types
for a terminal or nonterminal symbol (see section Nonterminal Symbols).
Note that, unlike making a union declaration in C, you do not write
a semicolon after the closing brace.
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