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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:47:30 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-stable-9@FreeBSD.org, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r254626 - stable/9/usr.bin/yacc
Message-ID:  <20130822224100.X2060@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <864naios6h.fsf@nine.des.no>
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, [utf-8] Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:

> Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> writes:
>> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
>>> Oh, it's actually our own fault for including -Wredundant-decls in
>>> CFLAGS.  Is there a good reason to keep it?
>> How else would you detect bogus declarations of library functions?  Almo=
st
>> all -W flags are for detecting bugs that are mostly style bugs like this
>> one.  This one only becomes more than a style bug if:
>> - the declaration becomes wrong
>> - the header with the correct declaration becomes not included.
>
> OK, point taken.
> ...
> So what do you suggest?  Revert David's change, or keep it (minus
> extern) and remove the prototype from expr.y?
>
> I favor the latter option, since yyparse() is auto-generated and expr.y
> can therefore (strictly speaking) not know what the correct prototype
> looks like.

Depends what the reason for merging the change is.  Is it to cross-build
old sources with a current yacc?  Then changing the old sources is not
so good.  It makes them not-old, and missing the declaration going the
other way with an old yacc.  I now remember not really liking the change
to expr.y in -current either for the same reason.  It de-portabilizes the
sources a little.

Bruce
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