Re: Bison 1.30f

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:36:07 +0100
> From: Hans Aberg <address@hidden>

> first you said
> >Also, strictly speaking it is required for POSIX conformance.
> >POSIX 1003.1-2001 says:
> >
> >   Conforming applications shall not use names beginning in yy or YY
> >   since the yacc parser uses such names. Many of the names appear in the
> >   final output of yacc, and thus they should be chosen to conform with
> >   any additional rules created by the C compiler to be used. In
> >   particular they appear in #define statements.
> 
> and later you say:
> 
> >> As for the real C++ support, I think that names yyfoo should become
> >> yy::foo, and YYFOO macro names should as far as possible be eliminated and
> >> replaced by yy C++ names. For example, in C++, one might replace
> >>   # define help_key        258
> >> by
> >>   const int help_key = 258;
> >> which would make use of fewer macros.
> >
> >For C, this would contradict the POSIX standard, which requires that
> >the symbols be visible to the preprocessor.  It would also break some
> >real code.

I don't see why these two quotes are contradictory.  The first quote
is about internal names in the generated code, which must begin with
yy or YY (in both C and C++, since they would otherwise run afoul of
preprocessor macros).  The second quote is about names that are put
into y.tab.h; they aren't internal.