On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:17:27AM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:22:46PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 01:46:06PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > > > > Anyway, I was envisaging that the patch might go into 5.8.x, but it's > > > definitely too scary for anything earlier. All the old byacc parser > > > > Depends how scarey it looks. How close is its output to the current *.c files, > > given the same input? > > Well, its like not close at all really. The boilerplate code is totally > different, and the tables generally have different names and totally > different content. Also, error recovery seems to be better.
But thinking about merging it, I ask myself "Is it binary compatible?" and I don't think I can answer this myself. Nicholas Clark
