Re: Reductions during Bison error handling

[Richard Stallman]

    The effect is that when a syntax error is discovered, we would now pop
    the stack back to where 'error' can be shifted, shift it, and then
    continue (the standard yacc panic-mode error recovery, in other
    words).  By contrast, the current code will, after popping stack
    symbols but before shifting error, sometimes perform additional
    reductions (as a result of which it may never shift error or take the
    error action at all.)  I sent a contrived example a couple of weeks
    ago (below).

Since this is only a matter of error processing, I think it can't
cause real harm.  So please go ahead.