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Re: [RFC] GCC vs Bison-1.875
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at unitus dot it>
- Cc: gcc List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:26:02 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFC] GCC vs Bison-1.875
- References: <3E31A4DC.1020805@unitus.it>
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:41:00PM +0100, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> * POSIX conformance
> ...
> - `parse error' -> `syntax error'
> Bison now uniformly uses the term `syntax error'; formerly, the code
> and manual sometimes used the term `parse error' instead. POSIX
> requires `syntax error' in diagnostics, and it was thought better to
> be consistent.
>
> What should be done wrt this issue?
I guess the best thing would be to modify the testsuite to
expect either, like "(parse|syntax) error".
r~