YYSTYPE #define'd to int

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 257d964..46fc7f2 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ void yyerror();
 static int madeany = false;  /* whether we've made the '.' character class */
 int previous_continued_action;	/* whether the previous rule's action was '|' */
 
+/* On some over-ambitious machines, such as DEC Alpha's, the default
+ * token type is "long" instead of "int"; this leads to problems with
+ * declaring yylval in flexdef.h.  But so far, all the yacc's I've seen
+ * wrap their definitions of YYSTYPE with "#ifndef YYSTYPE"'s, so the
+ * following should ensure that the default token type is "int".
+ */
+#define YYSTYPE int
+
 %}
 
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