Re: C99 in Bison

[Joel E. Denny]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Le 31 août 09 à 17:42, Joel E. Denny a écrit :
> 
> > Hi Akim.
> > 
> > On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > 
> > > > Alternatively, we could poll at help-bison and might get an answer
> > > > faster.
> > > 
> > > Yes, but what's the size of the poll?
> > 
> > I just checked the subscriber list and it's 260.
> 
> Wow, much larger than I expected.  I should pay more attention to what I'm
> writing :)

Scary, isn't it?  :-)  I wonder how many watch bison-patches.

> So there are several polls:
> 
> - c90 for generated yacc parsers (btw, the open group specs for yacc say
> "write C source code, conforming to the ISO C standard", which is unclear bw
> c90 and c99, but excludes any requirement to support knr).

Ah, I didn't think to check open group.  It also has this line:

  The C source code and header file shall be produced in a form suitable 
  as input for the C compiler (see c99).

> - remove the availability to reach the parse-params from the %printer and
> %destructor, at least in lalr1.cc.
> 
> - ?

Maybe also a request for feedback on Bison's many experimental features.

> > By the way, I'm not able to look at the subscriber lists for bug-bison and
> > bison-patches.  Why is that?
> 
> No idea.  The manager of the list may decide who can see the subscribers
> (anybody|subscribers|manager) but I don't know what rule the fsf follows.

Oh well.  I doubt I'll pursue that further.