Re: Reductions during Bison error handling

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Paul Hilfinger <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 19:35:51 -0700
> 
> According to the Posix requirements, as distributed by Paul E.,
> Bison is definitely not POSIX compliant in its error recovery.  Seems
> to me that gives us a reasonable mandate to fix something.

Yes, since Bison disagrees with POSIX, with yacc, and with its own
documentation, I think it's safe to assume that it's a bug.

Do you have a feeling for how hard it will be to fix things?
(The hardest part of the fix may well be the part that documents the
change clearly.)