Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Snapshot has not compiled in a couple of days

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> > >         The problem is in the ecpq stuff. There is a duplicate def of S_SIGNED.
> > >         Cab we fix this, so I can test the compile on HPUX?
> >
> > My cvs tree from 980223 03:00 UTC (about 24 hours ago) compiled to completion, but
> > I do see a duplicate definition of S_SIGNED in preproc.y. Remove that symbol from
> > line 234 of that file and try again.
>
> /usr/bin/bison -y -d preproc.y
> conflicts:  5 shift/reduce
> gcc -I../include -O2 -g -Wall -DMAJOR_VERSION=1 -DMINOR_VERSION=0 -DPATCHLEVEL=0   -c
> y.tab.c -o y.tab.o
> ...
> preproc.y:289: warning: passing arg 1 of `free' discards `const' from pointer target
> type
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o ecpg y.tab.o pgc.o type.o ecpg.o ../lib/typename.o
>
> I removed the duplicate S_SIGNED from my source code and noticed these
> remaining messages. Can we get rid of the shift/reduce conflicts? I
> haven't looked at the code, but there is a debugging flag on yacc/bison
> ("-v") which will write a log file identifying the conflicting
> statements. I have some experience debugging this on the main parser,
> but need to work on docs so shouldn't do this at the moment :(

    If I can figure out bison, I'll try and work these out...one way
to learn, I guess :)

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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