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


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: Bison no longer builds with K&R C.
Date: 21 Oct 2002 10:01:55 +0200
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.

Paul> That's OK: we can run it through ansi2knr before giving it to
Paul> the GCC folks.  This is safe so long as we continue stick to a
Paul> subset of ANSI C that will safely become K&R C after being
Paul> passed through ansi2knr.

This is good.  Actually, why wouldn't they accept the de-ansification
process instead of its result?




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