[antlr-interest] Reporting a bug in C Target

[Gokulakannan Somasundaram]

Jim,
    I read about the initialization rules and i agree with them. Thanks for
fixing it so quickly.

Gokul.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Jim Idle <jimi at temporal-wave.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:54:51 -0800
>
>  "Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>>> Assigning it to 0, will again cause trouble for C++ folks.
>>>
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>> No it won't, because 0 is a valid (indeed, the preferred) way of writing
>> a null pointer constant in C++.
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>> I think you misunderstood me. I said assigning 0 to a enum in C++ will
>> throw a compiler error.
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>
> I didn't though :). See email about new initialization rules. I think that
> they are much mire in keeping with C and C++. More generally it makes the
> grammar programmer responsible for behaviour, which is in line with the rest
> of the C stuff.
>
> David's point about C++ is correct though 0 == NULL is guranteed in ANSI C,
> evenbthough rhe compiler must work it out. Better to use NULL consistently
> and try to avoid adding to the billion dollars.
>
> Jim
>
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>> Gokul.
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