> Not seeing any motion on this, here's a draft patch to make these
> scripts complain about missing semicolons. Against the current
> gram.y (which contains 2 such errors, as Michael noted) you
> get output like
Thanks Tom for looking into this. Are we agreed then that we want
gram.y to have semicolons?
> '/usr/bin/perl' ./parse.pl . < ../../../backend/parser/gram.y >
> preproc.y
> unterminated rule at ./parse.pl line 370, <> line 1469.
> make: *** [preproc.y] Error 255
> make: *** Deleting file `preproc.y'
>
> That's not *super* friendly, but it does give you the right line
> number
> to look at in gram.y. We could adjust the script (and the Makefile)
> further so that the message would cite the gram.y filename, but I'm
> not
> sure if it's worth the trouble. Thoughts?
IMO it's not worth it. We all know where the grammar is and that the
ecpg tools only parse that one file. Why putting effort into writing it
down too?
Michael
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