Re: Bison and g++: It's been broken for more than a year!

[Laurence Finston]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Jim Babcock wrote:

> The most recent official version of bison is 1.875. That is the version
> bundled with every distro I have around to try. It has been that way for
> more than a year. Given that, you would expect it to be free of major
> bugs. But 1.875 is completely unusable with C++, because its output
> includes the following:
>    yyerrlab1:
>    #if defined (__GNUC_MINOR__) && 2093 <= (__GNUC__ * 1000 + __GNUC_MINOR__)
>      __attribute__ ((__unused__))
>    #endif

Bison 1.875 is not completely unusable with C++.  I use it with C++ and
it works fine.  What exactly doesn't work for you?

You'll probably get a better answer to questions about bugs from
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Laurence Finston
http://www.gnu.org/software/3dldf/LDF.html