In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Mitchell) wrote:
> Be afraid. Be very afraid. > > I have now committed the following change to bleedperl (#22302). > > It moves Perl from using byacc to bison, and simplifies a lot of things > along the way. It may well have broken VMS and EBCDIC platforms, since > I'm not in a position to be able to test these. On a recent version of OpenVMS Alpha (7.3-1), it does not introduce any new test failures to bleadperl, though I did have to apply the following patch to get it to compile. We just do a simple #define of DEBUGGING, but do not define it to any particular value (should we?). --- perly.c;-0 Fri Feb 13 20:27:26 2004 +++ perly.c Sat Feb 14 10:56:16 2004 @@ -83,3 +83,3 @@ /* Enable debugging if requested. */ -#if DEBUGGING +#ifdef DEBUGGING [end of patch] I did notice that defining YYDEBUG in the environment no longer enables the output of parsing details. I've never used this feature and I don't see that it was documented anywhere, so I don't know whether the loss is of any particular consequence.
