Re: bison-2.0a test results

[Hans Aberg]

At 22:10 -0700 2005/05/27, Paul Eggert wrote:
>  > AIX 4.2        with xlc:     OK (except that tests 46 47 90 91 92 
> 93 94 95 116
> >                                   failed, all due to an old C++ compiler that
> >                                   doesn't understand namespaces)
>
> That should be OK I guess.  If someone with access to such an old
> compiler can conditionalize the tests so that they're not run without
> namespaces that would be nice, but it's probably not worth your time.

The first C++ standard revision is ISO+IEC+14882-1998, and it has 
namespaces. My old C++ compiler from 1999 has namespaces. Namespaces 
are such an integral part of the C++ language, one cannot really 
expect any C++ code be written without it. The current Bison C++ 
parser does not use namespaces as much as it should; trying to keep 
compatibility with old C++ compilers which do not comply to the C++ 
standard will be too much work.

I must be something wrong with that AIX 4.2 installation. Is it an old OS?
--
  Hans Aberg