Re: Bison fix to not generate a temporary file

[Hans Aberg]

At 20:36 -0700 2002/10/20, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 11:47:03 +0200
>> From: Hans Aberg <address@hidden>
>>
>> If MSOS compilers have some kind of translation feature back and forth to
>> the UNIX path name convention, then there is no point in doing this, though.
>
>I think "/" has been a directory separator in DOS and its successors
>for two decades, so this particular use of "/" is not a problem.
>
>There are other problems in that area with Bison, but they are
>evidently not worth fixing since nobody has submitted patches.  Nobody
>has even reported them, as far as I know.  I'm not particularly
>interested in seeing bug reports in this area without patches, and
>even if someone went to the effort of writing patches, I'd reject them
>if they were complicated.  It is quite low priority to have Bison to
>run on non-POSIX systems, and we can't let that unimportant goal
>distract us from more important ones.

A simple way is to merely keep it as is and see if it generates complaints. :-)

If DOS successor computers now use "/", there is no point in worrying about
the issue. -- I just recall that Hugs once had such code in it as I
suggested, which made it come to my mind.

  Hans Aberg