[New-bugs-announce] [issue4347] Dependencies of graminit.h are not rebuilt when the file is regenerated

[Thomas Lee]

New submission from Thomas Lee <tom at vector-seven.com>:

It's important that dependencies of grammar.h get rebuilt if graminit.h
is regenerated (e.g. the Grammar is modified). If these dependencies do
not get rebuilt, the constants associated with each type of parse node
will have inconsistent values between the different intermediate files.

The net result is that a program afflicted by this might build without
errors, but then crash unexpectedly at runtime due to the inconsistent
constant values.

The patch is quite simple and ensures that all files that currently
depend on graminit.h are rebuilt if it changes.

It also removes an unnecessary #include from Python/future.c.

I believe a similar situation might occur with Python-ast.h and the
*_kind enumerations, but have yet to run into such a specific issue.
I'll post a separate patch if I do find this to be a problem.

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components: Build
files: graminit-dependencies.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 76010
nosy: thomas.lee
severity: normal
status: open
title: Dependencies of graminit.h are not rebuilt when the file is regenerated
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12046/graminit-dependencies.patch

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