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Re: Bison message counters silently wrap around; return from 'main'
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: Bison message counters silently wrap around; return from 'main' |
Date: |
22 Oct 2002 09:04:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) |
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
Paul> Bison returns nonzero from "main", but this doesn't work on some
Paul> older hosts. I also noticed that the Bison error message
Paul> counters silently wrap around when overflowing,
Err, when there are INT_MAX errors :) :)
Paul> but they are only used as booleans so they might as well be
Paul> bool. I installed this patch.
So this really exists? This had been a question a few months ago with
Autoconf: nobody could recall what host could fail to exit nonzero
when main does.