On 10/26/15 8:07 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> Hi Chet,
>
> I compiled bash with:
>
> CFLAGS='-O0 -g' ./configure --silent && make -j2 && make tests 2>&1 | tee
> out.log
>
> And I get many parsing errors in the results. Most seem to be parenthesis
> related, and some segfaults. I hope these two lead to fixing the whole thing:
Use bison. Command substitution requires invoking the parser recursively,
and byacc is completely incapable of reentrant parsing.
This is one of the reasons that production bash releases ship with versions
of y.tab.c and y.tab.h generated by bison.
Chet
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