Re: One more (hopefully last) patch for Bison and C++ before release

[Hans Aberg]

At 15:58 -0800 2001/12/17, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> I had one problem when compiling under C++, using alloca:
>> Error   : undefined identifier 'size_t'
>>
>> There is a trick one can use: First in the file put:
>>
>> #ifdef __cplusplus
>> # define YYSTD(x) std::x
>> #else
>> # define YYSTD(x) x
>> #endif
>
>OK, that looks harmless for C, so I checked in the following patch to
>the bison-1_29-branch.  I'll do the same for the mainline branch soon.

I figure this looks OK, so not let's this issue sealy 1.30 anymore.

>It is a bit amusing that alloca itself violates the C++ namespace
>rules, but never mind....

I am not sure what you mean here: alloca isn't in the C++ standard (and
never will be). Thus, it can be named whatever.

  Hans Aberg