Re: Bison message counters silently wrap around; return from 'main'

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

Paul> Bison returns nonzero from "main", but this doesn't work on some
Paul> older hosts.  I also noticed that the Bison error message
Paul> counters silently wrap around when overflowing, 

Err, when there are INT_MAX errors :) :)

Paul> but they are only used as booleans so they might as well be
Paul> bool.  I installed this patch.

So this really exists?  This had been a question a few months ago with
Autoconf: nobody could recall what host could fail to exit nonzero
when main does.