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toby

2006-04-25, 7:15 pm

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> toby <toby@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> At the time I wrote it, bison insisted on using alloca(). But see below -
>
>
> yes - it does, but watching bug reports, I notice that it doesn't
> necessarily accept grammars that yacc did (whether this is a good
> thing or not appears to depend on your attitude).
>
>
> It would be nice if "-ansi" actually did what it's advertised.


In which of those three compilers? (One of which is all-ANSI, all the
time.) Why would a random ANSI compiler be more or less ANSI than gcc
or icc's "-ansi"?

(Bison 2.1 also builds with tcc, but the binary segfaults, which might
be my problem. :)

--Toby

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