Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:19:41 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> Cc: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com, bug-bison@gnu.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portability fix for bison-1.75 Message-ID: <20060120211940.GA43031@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <87r772obn8.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> References: <200601131825.SAA21164@sopwith.solgatos.com> <87r772obn8.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>
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--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD0VPsWry0BWjoQKURAg6CAJ9nQuSGnswApHDFEeR809wkLT5oUQCdF7ni Z2wzv3585AqqfvY/LZQa3cY= =Y1+c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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