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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: dtc: Make some functions local to parser
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:18:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080304191844.GA7810@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080304043700.GB2757@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 03:37:00PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> * The Bison documentation explicitly permits yyerror() to be a
>   variadic function, so fold yyerror() and yyerrorf() into a single
>   printf-style function.

Then the bison documentation is not consistent with the bison
implementation when verbose error messages are enabled.  How can it possibly
know whether to put % or %% in the string when an unexpected % is
encountered?

Reading bison internals makes my head hurt...

>   The combined function is defined and used
>   only in the parse, so make it static.

Static-izing something that is used externally in a posted patch where
you've provided no alternate to use is rather bad form...

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-04 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04  4:37 dtc: Make some functions local to parser David Gibson
2008-03-04 19:18 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-03-05  0:38   ` David Gibson

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