Subject: Re: yacc and PR 4260
To: None <tech-toolchain@netbsd.org>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/23/2002 17:09:01
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 04:50:15PM +0900, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> In article <20021223055606.GA4392@krishna>
> junyoung@netbsd.org writes:
>
> > IMO, it would be to simply close the PR. If we accepted such request,
> > some people soon might request to back out removing __P() in userland
> > programs (and other ANSI changes as well), because they don't compile
> > in pre-ANSI systems.
>
> This is not related to NetBSD userland.
> I (I'm the author of the PR :) just thought that
> develop a program with yacc on NetBSD,
> bring the C file to SunOS 4,
> and it always cores
> was a little awkward, and might discourage users to use NetBSD as
> a development environment.
>
> (I have fewer number of SunOS 4's around, recently. :)
It would be better to ask Sun to support ANSI realloc(3) in their C
runtime. Anyway it's not NetBSD's fault or bug.
Jun-Young
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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>