On 30 Jan 2006, at 03:10, Joel E. Denny wrote:
This is way off topic, but when was this abandoned? make
maintainer-check
would need to be updated.
The compile C as C++ option was never official, therefore no
notice was made,
I gather. But it was a few years ago.
Maybe you're not talking about what I think you are. Are you
referring to
a specific flag or directive?
In the past, Bison did not have any specific flag or directive for
compiling C++.
Or do you simply mean the ability to
compile the generated C as C++?
Instead, the C parser was for some time unofficially written so that
some could compile it using a C++ compiler. But then C++ added
namespaces, which in combination with other things (like the need for
invoking the copy constructors during a parser stack extension), made
it difficult to maintain. So this idea of being able compile the C
parser as C++ was dropped, though some projects are using it (perhaps
LilyPond is one).
Hans Aberg
