Re: too many warnings from Bison CVS for Pike

[Hans Aberg]

On 29 Jan 2006, at 23:49, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> Yes, I was trying to tell you what I think the POSIX spec intends. :)
>
> In any case, as I said before, this debate of what they meant could  
> last a
> while.  So, I suggested the short cut of just choosing what bison  
> should
> do for --yacc based on a portable interpretation of the spec.

The problem is that we do not know what this interpretation ought to  
be. If one does not want to break old code, then one can stick with  
what has been in the past.

> > One example is the unofficial
> > compile C as C++ that existed for awhile, but that was abandoned  
> > in view that
> > it was too difficult to maintain.
>
> This is way off topic, but when was this abandoned?  make  
> maintainer-check
> would need to be updated.

The compile C as C++ option was never official, therefore no notice  
was made, I gather. But it was a few years ago. The point is that the  
$$ = $1 seems to fall into the same category: not explicitly  
official, but used by some because it works.

  Hans Aberg