Re: Bison no longer builds with K&R C.

[Peter Klein]

> | > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 22:35:53 +0200
> | > From: Peter Klein <address@hidden>
> | 
> | > But SunOS cc fails. After the third error I gave up.
> | 
> | Thanks for trying it and for sending me the (voluminous) log.
> | 
> | I doubt whether it's worth your time or mine to debug this, so I
> | propose that we officially discontinue support for building Bison with
> | K&R C.  Here is a proposed (and untested patch) for discussion; if
> | there's no disagreement, I'll test and install it.
> 
> This is fine with me, unless the problem is in Automake: they want to
> keep maintaining ansi2knr, so if the problem was there, we ought to
> know what went wrong.

I do not have automake installed, since perl is still missing on my
SunOS 4.1.4 box.
> 
> Also, GCC does keep the K&R requirement, although in a limited form
> (IIRC the stage 1 compiler must compile with a K&R compiler).  I
> suspect that the bitset lib must remain K&R.
>

This inital bootstrap of the gcc would be fine. But I assume, every-
one having an SunOS installed has already some old verion of gcc
available.

And I doubt, that there are any new installations of SunOS 4.1.4
from the scratch.

> Did you have any news from its author?
> 
As Paul already mentioned, the problems occur during compiling.
If you give me a hint, how to set up the structures in abitset.c
without gcc s prototyping (if my terminologie is wright?)
I'll do one or two more trials.

Do you want additional tests? Infos?

Kind Regards

Peter Klein