On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I have a nasty feeling that you recently updated your bison, and the
> >> bison people saw fit to change the message wording?
>
> > Looks like it to me: I hadn't noticed, but Debian unstable recently
> > upgraded to bison 1.875 -- when I downgraded to 1.75 again, the
> > regression tests now pass without any problems.
>
> Ugh, that's bad news. Can we lobby the bison folks to revert this
> random rewording of an error message? Or at least make it configurable,
> so that we can avoid exposing any change to our users?
The change doesn't seem to be for trivial reasons. Log message for
revision 1.35 of data/yacc.c says:
"parse error" -> "syntax error" for POSIX compatibility.
Gavin
