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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] YACC parsers
References: <201112171937.pBHJbDhq010089@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:15:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <201112171937.pBHJbDhq010089@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (Mark	Kettenis's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:37:14 +0100 (CET)")
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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:

Mark> It may not be impossible to "fix" the OpenBSD yacc(4) here, but given
Mark> the fact that it supports the -p option to add a prefix to all the
Mark> relevant symbols that would be somewhat silly.  Unfortunately,
Mark> changing the build infrastructure to use yacc -p isn't exactly
Mark> trivial.

Mark> Opinions?

What is hard about using yacc -p?

I wouldn't mind getting rid of these hacks and requiring a -p-capable
yacc.  Or even requiring Bison; I think this would only be needed by gdb
developers anyhow.

Tom