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From: mdt@YAHI.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Tiemann)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: _main (or other functions) undefined?
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Date: 21 Feb 89 16:56:50 GMT
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A fwe times people have reported that GNU C++ will compile their
files, and make it to the link stage, only to have _main undefined.  I
now know the cause for this problem: bison is out of date.  At least
one old version of bison would return an error status (silently) when
it encountered a syntax error.  GNU C++ does not check the return
status of yyparse, instead it relies on the parser to detect and
record all relavent errors.  Since the error is not recorded, GNU C++
assumes that evrything is ok, and hence does not return an error
status.  The result is partially compiled programs.

Getting the latest version of bison fixes this problem.

Michael