Re: Compatibility Question

[Hans Aberg]

At 12:41 -0700 2003/06/11, Robert A Nesius wrote:
>...I'm wondering if there are constraints surrounding the code
>that bison emits.  ANSI compatibile only, or gcc only...

Bison has a Yacc compatibility mode which is supposed to be POSIX
compliant, but that is all. Things that go beyond POSIX are extras.

That is the theory. I reality, you will probably find that Bison is
developed on and for UNIX systems that are thought to be POSIX compliant.
So there might be problems when expecting strict POSIX compliance.

>I'm working on trying to get ecc (Intel's compiler) on an ia64
>machine to compile a bison-generated parser.  However, I'm getting
>compile time errors of the syntax variety, which is a little
>unexpected.   The errors are coming from include files in the
>ecc install.

I suspect you will have to provide more descriptions for others to be able
to help. Perhaps Bug Bison is the right list.

  Hans Aberg