Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:45:31 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/yacc skeleton.c Message-ID: <199907291645.RAA38807@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:30:00 PDT." <19990729093000.A5570@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> > I agree that this change should be part of any ``portable yacc''
> > code (if such a thing exists), but can't see why the change is necessary
> > in the FreeBSD tree.
>
> Because software packages that use Yacc often supply the parser output
> from Yacc in their distribution. We don't know on which platform someone
> is likely to use code on. We don't want FreeBSD to be a poor development
> platform.
Ah, I should have cvs diff'd the code - I thought it was a problem
with how yacc used realloc() rather than with the code that yacc
outputs.
Sorry 'bout that !
> --
> -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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