Re: quick bison Q

[David Durham]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> It allowed any sequence of characters other than '{', which (as far as
> I can tell) violates POSIX.  For example, the following Yacc program
> conforms to POSIX, and when compiled and run should exit with status
> 0; but with Bison 1.35 there is a compile-time error message due to
> the comment being misparsed.
>
>         %union /* A valid Yacc comment that is not a valid C comment *\
> 	/ because it has *-backslash-newline-/ in it */ 
> 	  {
>             int ival;
>           };
>         %{
>           int yylex (void) { return -1; }
>         %}
>         %%
>         s:;
whoever's making comments like that can get over it :)