Re: Bison Incompatible Types

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:19:05AM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> > My guess is that var->hidden_by->loc isn't const and var->loc is (or
> > vice versa), so the compiler doesn't know what the constness of the
> > ternary is.  I tried forcing both arms of the ternary with (const):
> >
> >  location id_loc = var->hidden_by ? (const) var->hidden_by->loc : (const)
> >            var->loc;
> >
> > But the subsequent bmake gives:
> >
> > "/opt/pkgsrc/devel/bison/work/bison-2.5/src/scan-code.l":line 21:
> > Error: missing translation value
> >
> > At this point, I'm thoroughly out of my depth, so I'm not sure where to go 
> > next.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> This remains unresolved.  If we care enough about supporting Sun
> Studio, this needs to be looked at.  I might have the time to dig
> deeper next week.  In the meantime, I followed Hans' advice, and
> bootstrapped gcc34, which works fine.

Please talk to the bison developers about this. They are probably in
the best position to help you get their code to compile.

Thanks,
 Thomas