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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: dtc: Make some functions local to parser
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:38:01 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305003801.GF8399@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080304191844.GA7810@loki.buserror.net>

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:18:44PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> 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?

Ah crap.  I'd forgotten the specific case you mentioned before.

> 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...

IIRC, I already asked you *not* to use it externally, though.  And a
lot of these patches I've been posting lately are yak-shaving leading
up to a generally available error function.

Still, forget this patch for now.

-- 
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05  0:38 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
2008-03-05  0:38   ` David Gibson [this message]

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