Re: [PATCH] Handle comments in the C expression parser

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain at cygnus dot com>]

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle comments in the C expression parser
From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com>
Date: 14 Feb 2001 01:24:59 -0500
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Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com> writes:

> > It shouldn't give that error, you should get an error as soon as you
> > hit enter after line.
> 
> Err, yeah.
> 
>   (gdb) print /* multi line
>   error: unterminated comment
> 
> ... that is what I am thinking.
> 
> > Think of comments as ignored quoted strings with different start and
> > end chars.
> 
> And different \ convention.  I'm too tired to figure out how gdb
> handles \ in '...' and "..." strings.
> 

It calls "parse_escape", and lets it handle it. If parse_escape
returns -1 or something, it gives you an escape error. Otherwise, it
continues eating about it's very way.


> > On to better things.
> > :)
> 
> Oooh, oooh, can we get a new demangler with "unsigned int",
> "void", "char *", and "foo &" ?
> 
> That would make 5 or 6 people happy.
> 
I'm still waiting for approval, i'll ping again.

I've been busy abstracting the other differences that pop up, into a
C++ abi framework (IE struct cp_abi_ops).
--Dan
> Michael