On 6 Feb 2006, at 20:26, Paul Eggert wrote:
Hans Aberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I guess the GNU philosophy that anything beyond GCC is extra. :-)
Well, I've been spending the last month or so trying to make sure that
Bison 2.2 (when it comes out) will work with all sorts of bizarre
non-GCC environments. So your comment came as somewhat of an
unpleasant surprise. It appears that you haven't noticed those
efforts. Certainly the goal is for Bison to work with all sorts of
weird compilers, just as it has for many years.
I guess to put something into my comment that wasn't intended. :-)
I guess I do not know the world of contemporary C++ compilers that
well.
There's no shame in that; hardly anybody does. (I certainly don't.)
But we get bug reports, and we try to fix them.
I just have GCC 4.0.1, which suffices for me. :-)
Templates are tricky to implement, but if there is a method to do it,
I thought compilers would have caught up by now. But on another
compiler I used, I noticed linking errors, due to the fact that it is
hard for the compiler to figure where to put the object code, if the
template generating the code is in a header. A similar problem arises
with "inline" functions in a header that cannot be inlined, I figure.
Hans Aberg
