Re: [PATCH] Extract language-independent stuff out of c.m4

[Paul Eggert]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> A cleanup which is necessary for the Java front-end, but worthwhile on
> its own.

The basic idea looks fine.  Some comments:

> Most of the stuff in c.m4 is absolutely language independent.  This
> patch extracts it in a separate bison.m4 file.

The "language independent" bit includes using "&&" for short-circuit
AND.  This works between C & Java, but not between (say) C and Scheme.
So is this part really "language independent"?  Or perhaps the name
needs to be redone.

> In the meanwhile, I
> moved one tiny language dependent detail out of the C source code into
> M4: the default prefix for Java will be YY, not yy. :-)

Won't an M4 change be required for this as well?