Re: Bison 3 support for PHP 5.5

On 28 May 2014 08:06, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 May 2014, Julien Pauli wrote: >> >> > That's a no-go for 5.5. >> > 5.5 is stable, 1year old (at this email date), and we should not >> > change such a thing into this stable branch. >> >> Right, but it's going to be supported for at least another year. And >> right now, on the latest Ubuntu's with only bison 3 you can't actually >> build it. Because of that, a patch like this should absolutely be >> considered. > > The patch (as proposed) changes the ABI for zendlex and zendparse. As such > I don't think it's applicable to PHP 5.5 in this form. Agreed, but as Derick said, there's definitely an argument for some sort of Bison 3 compatibility in 5.5. John, can you see a way — however hackish — to get Bison 3 support in 5.5 without changing those functions? Thanks, Adam