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.

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