Re: 'lint' fixes for Bison-generated parsers

[Paul Eggert]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

> Dare I suggest that
> you might want to report this knowledge somewhere, e.g., autoconf.texi?
> $0.02 from someone-who-did-nothing-but-suggests-others-to-do-more.

Yes, that's a good idea, but to be honest I'm a bit swamped.

>  > -            yysize_overflow |= yysize1 < yysize;
>  > +            yysize_overflow |= (yysize1 < yysize);
>
> I don't get that one.

Without the change, lint complains "warning: precedence confusion
possible; parenthesize".  I figured it's easy to squash that warning,
and I guess some would argue the code is more readable with the parens.