Re: Another - Bison 1.35 works but Bison 1.50 Doesn't

[Tim Van Holder]

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 07:11, Paul Eggert wrote:
> However, my argument is that even the 1.28 warning is unnecessary when
> the left-hand-side type is `' (i.e., unspecified), since the type
> clash doesn't matter in that case, as the right-hand-side value is
> being discarded in this case.  This issue is independent of whether a
> mid-rule action is specified.

OTOH, without the warning, a memory leak is introduced if the semantic
value is dynamically allocated.  With the warning, it can be easily
found & fixed (e.g. by adding code to free that memory).
Admittedly, for non-pointer semantic values, this means that you do
indeed have to write the bison equivalent of a (void) in the grammar.

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