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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, jdl@jdl.com, u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [DTC PATCH 1/2] Add yyerrorf() for formatted error messages.
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:43:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071222024353.GB7891@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071221212856.GA8208@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net>

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:28:56PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:04:39AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:48:23AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> > 
> > No need for a new function.  If yyerror() is defined as a varargs
> > function it's still compatible with bison's built-in usage.
> 
> Not if yyerror() is called with a percent symbol in the string, which
> looks possible if a percent token is added and verbose syntax errors are
> enabled.

Ah, yes, I guess so.

However from discussion on the other thread, it looks like this
extended yyerror() isn't really what you want.  Maybe instead we
should look a more general error/warning printing function, and make
yyerror() call that.

-- 
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-22  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20 16:48 [DTC PATCH 1/2] Add yyerrorf() for formatted error messages Scott Wood
2007-12-21  0:04 ` David Gibson
2007-12-21 21:28   ` Scott Wood
2007-12-22  2:43     ` David Gibson [this message]

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