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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Mark Taylor wrote:

> > I've made some modifications to ctag-y.y and ftag-y.y (moved yerrok out of
> > the handle_error) and this seems to make SCB compile using code generated
> > by byacc and bison -y. The make check looks OK, but you should probably
> > have a play yourself.
>
> OK, seems to be all right both in theory and in practice.
> I've added a comment on what's going on to the .y files.

Good.

> This is a workaround for a definite and easily-fixed bug in
> (at least Cygwin) yacc though - will you make/have you made a Cygwin
> bug report?  If you've lost the minimal yacc source file I wrote to
> demonstrate it I can probably find a Cygwin machine to reproduce it on.

It's no longer a Cygwin bug, but what looks more like a Bison bug or maybe
just incompatibility (bison is not yacc), so I guess that's the right
place to submit a bug report. I have the minimal file you created.

Cheers,

Peter.