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- From: bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu (Brent)
- Subject: Re: Gripe with Bison code (and a suggested fix...)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.161132.18236@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Texas A&M Univ., Inc.
- References: <1992Sep9.041540.10477@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:11:32 GMT
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- bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu (Brent) writes:
- |
- |I have a problem with some of the Bison code (version 1.18). Not the
- |generated code, but bison's source.
-
- I received some interesting replies to my original post.
-
- 1) Some one accused me of calling people names. What?
- I certainly didn't do this, but I *was* extremely critical of the code.
- (Critiqueing code is what happens when code becomes public. You
- see something that disturbs you, etc. )
-
- 2) Mr. Stallman educated me on one aspect of using variable arguments: not
- all systems and compilers can deal with variables arguments. This
- is the reason some functions may have 9 arguments... I didn't know
- some systems couldn't do it; I never thought anything about it.
-
- I will change the software to use variable arguments using the ANSI
- method (stdarg.h, varargs.h, etc) and I will see where to mail the changes.
-
- Thanks,
- -Brent
-