Re: [Bison-Announce] Bison 3.5.91 released [beta]

Denis Excoffier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 2020-04-29 18:53, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> This is the second beta of Bison 3.6, which includes big changes
> prompted by user feature requests.  Dear users, we *need* feedback
> about these new features, we *need* you to try them on your project to
> make sure they address your need, to make sure your request was
> properly understood.
> 
Hello,

This sounds OK. However, i have still a single error on Cygwin, it is for AT 136 "Tabulations and multibyte characters".

The reason is that wchar_t is 16-bit on this platform (i.e. Windows), therefore several of the (multibyte) characters in this test
do not fit. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2019-11/msg00011.html for the exact results of this test.

I suggest to SKIP this test in case the number of bits in wchar_t is not 32 (see BITSIZEOF_WCHAR_T). Indeed, since the
mbrtowc() and related functions are used, characters using 4 UTF-8 bytes cannot be handled properly.

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

Denis Excoffier.
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