GCC-3.2.2 pre-release (second iteration)

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Mon Feb 3 16:55:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:19:08PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | --touch run.  The only thing that could be considered "wrong" is having
> | Bison 1.875 installed when generating the prerelease, which necessitates
> | the "syntax error" testsuite changes, rather than an older version that's
> | been tested for longer with the 3.2 series (e.g., whatever version was
> | used for the 3.2.1 release).
> 
> Firstly, there is no way I could have known that GCC's testsuite will be
> affected by recent version of Bison as there is no mention of which
> Bison should be used for GCC (pre)releases.

It's a good thing that you discovered this, actually.

Others won't know this either, so it will be a good thing to fix the tests
so that they won't be broken if they see "syntax error" instead of "parse
error".
 



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