Re: Bison 1.30f

[Mike Castle]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:24:53PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Hans" == Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> This is no longer how it works: it now directly defines what it
> >> needs and no longer uses YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA afterwards.  That's
> >> Paul decision, and if you want to debate about this, do that with
> >> him.
> 
> Hans> I do not care about this myself; but if one should have
> Hans> backwards compatibility, then that is how it should have worked.
> 
> What kind of backward compatibility issue are you referring to?

The only compaitbility I know of is people using an undocumented feature.

I don't know how many bug reports I've sent to various gnome projects
surrounding the change in YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA, but in each case, it was them
using an undocumented feature

mrc
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