Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] perf tools: add destructors for parse event terms

[Jiri Olsa]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 09:08:34AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 1:27 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:01:59PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > > If parsing fails then destructors are ran to clean the up the stack.
> > > Rename the head union member to make the term and evlist use cases more
> > > distinct, this simplifies matching the correct destructor.
> >
> > nice did not know about this.. looks like it's been in bison for some time, right?
> 
> Looks like it wasn't in Bison 1 but in Bison 2, we're at Bison 3 and
> Bison 2 is > 14 years old:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20050924004158/http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_mono/bison.html#Destructor-Decl

sounds safe ;-)

thanks,
jirka