Re: Bison 1.30f

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Castle <address@hidden> writes:

Hans> I do not care about this myself; but if one should have
Hans> backwards compatibility, then that is how it should have worked.
>> What kind of backward compatibility issue are you referring to?

Mike> The only compaitbility I know of is people using an undocumented
Mike> feature.

Even in this case, I see none!

Mike> I don't know how many bug reports I've sent to various gnome
Mike> projects surrounding the change in YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA, but in
Mike> each case, it was them using an undocumented feature

I agree.  Many people have been asking for a means to turn off Bison's
use of alloca.  That's why 1.3x is different of 1.28: to let the user
disable alloca via YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA.