Re: remove unportable casts and storage allocation tricks from Bison

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:12:58 +0100
> 
> Thanks Paul.  Actually, I know for this architecture, but it seems to
> have been the original platform for Bison [1], so the risk doesn't
> seem to have been "exercised".

I have only a limited knowledge of the x86 platform, but from what
little I know the problem would most likely occur only on quite large
grammars, and it's quite possible that none of our test cases exercise
it.  Bison has many other problems with large grammars, but we might
as well fix this one while we're in the neighborhood.

Also, there are other, less-commonly used architectures with a similar
problem.  I think the Cray line is one example.  I don't know if Crays
will have problems with smaller grammars, though.