Re: Lookahead vs. Scanner Feedback

In article 92-01-022 bliss@sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu (Brian Bliss) writes:


      One place where every yacc/lex based C compiler I know of is
      broken is on a typedef name redefined in an inner scope:


      typedef int foo;


      main ()
            {
char foo;
            }


      is legal ANSI C. I think there was a thread on this a while back.


Well, take GNU C (versions 1.something and 2) off your list of broken
yacc/lex-based compilers. (Ok, it's not lex-based and it is bison-based,
but I don't think that matters.) I just tried this example on both
versions and it works fine.
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James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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