Comment about bison and alloca.

diff --git a/gettext-runtime/intl/ChangeLog b/gettext-runtime/intl/ChangeLog
index 32e602664e0fde3f709f526c40b072d4f7293db9..78a2365005c2c1a5a1c251da910a881e2d8a3f18 100644 (file)
--- a/gettext-runtime/intl/ChangeLog
+++ b/gettext-runtime/intl/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-07-21  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * plural.y: Modify comment about #pragma alloca.
+       Suggested by Paul Eggert.
+
 2005-07-26  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        * Makefile.in (datarootdir): New variable.

diff --git a/gettext-runtime/intl/plural.y b/gettext-runtime/intl/plural.y
index 9826608d9c9f59028a917a35ede65a17dc18a38e..45d68e949eb8534939b5fcff3ea499abc7a1af5b 100644 (file)
--- a/gettext-runtime/intl/plural.y
+++ b/gettext-runtime/intl/plural.y
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 %{
 /* Expression parsing for plural form selection.
-   Copyright (C) 2000-2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2000-2001, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 2000.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
    USA.  */
 
-/* The bison generated parser uses alloca.  AIX 3 forces us to put this
-   declaration at the beginning of the file.  The declaration in bison's
-   skeleton file comes too late.  This must come before <config.h>
-   because <config.h> may include arbitrary system headers.  */
+/* For bison < 2.0, the bison generated parser uses alloca.  AIX 3 forces us
+   to put this declaration at the beginning of the file.  The declaration in
+   bison's skeleton file comes too late.  This must come before <config.h>
+   because <config.h> may include arbitrary system headers.
+   This can go away once the AM_INTL_SUBDIR macro requires bison >= 2.0.  */
 #if defined _AIX && !defined __GNUC__
  #pragma alloca
 #endif