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Re: portability fix for bison-1.75
From: |
Kris Kennaway |
Subject: |
Re: portability fix for bison-1.75 |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:19:41 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:03:07PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Dieter <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > A fix for portability between ILP32 and LP64.
>
> 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>.
>
> 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
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- portability fix for bison-1.75, Dieter, 2006/01/20
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Paul Eggert, 2006/01/20
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Mark Linimon, 2006/01/21
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75,
Kris Kennaway <=
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Paul Eggert, 2006/01/20
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Kris Kennaway, 2006/01/21
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Paul Eggert, 2006/01/23
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Mark Linimon, 2006/01/23
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Paul Eggert, 2006/01/23
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Kris Kennaway, 2006/01/23
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Paul Eggert, 2006/01/23
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Paul Eggert, 2006/01/23
- Re: portability fix for bison-1.75, Paul Eggert, 2006/01/23