Re: C99 in Bison

[Akim Demaille]

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 :)

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).

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

- ?

> While that's smaller
> than the number of people who receive NEWS, it would be a decent  
> initial
> poll.
>
> 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.