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[Ian Bruene]

On 06/18/2018 03:37 PM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> Ah, now that's the kind of error pattern I *expect* from Bison parsers.
> The underlying problem is that the C in Bison parser skeletons is
> really archaic. It dates from times when not even the value of
> procedural encapsulation was fully understood - thus all those ugly
> globals hanging out in front of God and everybody.
>
> It's not actually in the least difficult to design a skeleton that
> gets this right.  I did it once.  The point is that that warning is nothing
> we're doing wrong, it's GCC correctly noticing that the skeleton code kinda
> sucks, and we probably *would* have to build a custom skeleton to
> fix it.  I have seen this movie before.

So why haven't the skeletons been fixed in all this time? The only 
reasons I can see are Write Once Forget Forever, and unwillingness to 
use more modern features that not all projects are able to use (which 
could be an option switch).

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