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authorEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2021-08-28 06:35:25 -0700
committerEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2021-08-28 06:35:25 -0700
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@@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ There are a few points to keep in mind when modifying **pycparser**:
* The code for **pycparser**'s AST nodes is automatically generated from a
configuration file - ``_c_ast.cfg``, by ``_ast_gen.py``. If you modify the AST
- configuration, make sure to re-generate the code.
+ configuration, make sure to re-generate the code. This can be done by running
+ the ``_build_tables.py`` script from the ``pycparser`` directory.
* Make sure you understand the optimized mode of **pycparser** - for that you
must read the docstring in the constructor of the ``CParser`` class. For
development you should create the parser without optimizations, so that it