Re: [PATCH 1/7] Fix handling of ident-less declarations

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 08:31:54PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:08:36PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:45:41AM -0800, Christopher Li wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The rule for ident-less declaration is
> > > 
> > > wow, great.
> > > 
> > > The series applies to the tree fine. First impression of the series
> > > looks fine. I am still working on it.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the patches. BTW, this is not the "lazy type evaluation"
> > > you are talking about right?
> > 
> > No, just the first batch of declaration parser fixes...  The next group is
> > about separating ctype-as-part-of-symbol from ctype-as-parser-state uses.
> > After that - getting declaration_specifiers() to sane shape, which, BTW,
> > will relieve the situation with mode bits.  Then -  cleaning up the type
> > handling...
> 
> BTW, I wonder whether if it would be better to just scan for the end
> of attributes after ( when we are deciding whether it's a function or
> nested declarator, leaving the actual handling of these guys to after
> the decision.  The thing is, unlike gcc we have the token list anyway,
> and it's easier to not bother with passing that crap to parameter_type_list(),
> etc.
> 
> I'll try to do that and see what falls out; potentially that replaces
> 7/7 in this series.

... no, it doesn't ;-/  Too much PITA with error recovery, so the original
version still stands.  Alas.