On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 15:57, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:30:41 -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > >> I don't see how K&R compat helps us. None of the headers in >> /usr/include are K&R anymore. How would one compile the generated output? > > You're assuming that the resulting code will be built on OpenBSD. > That's a bad assumption. The code generated by lex and yacc should > be as portable as possible.
True, I phrased that poorly. What I'm assuming is that the code will be built by a compiler that supports the const keyword. Or in other words, if you're using a 25 year old cross compiler, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect you to dig up a 25 year old cross yacc either (or the yacc from openbsd 5.4). Who is actually using yacc to generate code for a compilter that doesn't accept const?
