Re: My plans for Bison: gitch in yacc.c

[Eric S. Raymond]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden>:
> So maybe you are referring to this change:
> 
> https://github.com/akimd/bison/commit/2b5a27ba3db0f86d37eaef157cc5562082144ff3
> 
> diff --git a/data/yacc.c b/data/yacc.c
> index e974319f..8e03c32f 100644
> --- a/data/yacc.c
> +++ b/data/yacc.c
> @@ -1207,6 +1207,7 @@ yysyntax_error (YYSIZE_T *yymsg_alloc, char **yymsg,
>        case N:                               \
>          yyformat = S;                       \
>        break
> +    default: /* Avoid compiler warnings. */
>        YYCASE_(0, YY_("syntax error"));
>        YYCASE_(1, YY_("syntax error, unexpected %s"));
>        YYCASE_(2, YY_("syntax error, unexpected %s, expecting %s"));
> 
> 
> which is part of v3.0.5 according to that very page.

That looks like it, yes.  Sadly, Ubuntu 18.10 is only up to 3.04.

I think I'll poke bison's Debian and Ubuntu packagers about this.
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