Re: too many warnings from Bison CVS for Pike

[Hans Aberg]

On 30 Jan 2006, at 03:10, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > > 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.
>
> Maybe you're not talking about what I think you are.  Are you  
> referring to
> a specific flag or directive?

In the past, Bison did not have any specific flag or directive for  
compiling C++.

> Or do you simply mean the ability to
> compile the generated C as C++?

Instead, the C parser was for some time unofficially written so that  
some could compile it using a C++ compiler. But then C++ added  
namespaces, which in combination with other things (like the need for  
invoking the copy constructors during a parser stack extension), made  
it difficult to maintain. So this idea of being able compile the C  
parser as C++ was dropped, though some projects are using it (perhaps  
LilyPond is one).

  Hans Aberg