Re: cp/parse.y:2120: invalid value: $3

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:06:33PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > 2002-04-29  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
> >
> >     * parse.y (nomods_initdcl0): Do not move stack entries
> >     when setting things up as initdcl0_innards expects.
> >     This avoids a typo caught by CVS Bison; let's buy Akim
> >     Demaille a beer!
> 
> Nathan, would you apply this patch to branch and mainline, please?
> (Leave out the last two lines of the ChangeLog entry; we'll stick to
> the facts.)

Thank you.

My responce to reading that ChangeLog was:

    Feh!  Lets buy Robert Corbett and the CSRG a beer.  Berkeley YACC
    from 4.4BSD reported this bug long before Bison did.  
    
[I wasn't going to respond to this thread publicly, but give credit where
credit is due].

This just shows why just because a single tool "works", people should not
ignore the real diagnosttics from another tool.

I did not like the C output especially compaired to what Byacc did the
face of the error.  However I was so put down when I brought up there was
an error in the grammar I didn't bother to send the C code differences to
this list as I wasn't being listened to.