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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:19:41 -0500
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
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Subject: Re: portability fix for bison-1.75
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:03:07PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> writes:
>=20
> > A fix for portability between ILP32 and LP64.
>=20
> Thanks, but that bug was fixed in a different way some time ago; see
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2002-12/msg00009.html>.
>=20
> Bison 1.75 is pretty old and has several known bugs.  I'm not sure I'd
> recommend it for widespread use these days.

Unfortunately there is a lot of software that cannot be used as-is
with the newer version.  This seems to be because the newer versions
of bison are not backwards-compatible, which is irritating to say the
least.

In a practical sense it means that despite your recommendation, bison
1.75 is likely to be here to stay for the indefinite future.

Kris

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