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Re: turn off putting flex/bison output in distfile?
- From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
- To: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>
- Cc: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>, <mcmahill at mtl dot mit dot edu>, <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 07:46:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: turn off putting flex/bison output in distfile?
- Reply-to: <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
On 25 Jul 2002, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <dickey@herndon4.his.com> writes:
>
> Thomas> byacc is portable, and has the advantage (in contrast to
> Thomas> bison) of being written in ANSI C.
>
> ... which is written in?
bison relies on alloca, which is not standard. There are a few compilers
which implement it, but the presence of nonstandard code in bison is one
reason why I do not install it except for the _Very_ rare combination of
a useful program which actually requires the features in bison.
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