From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] Wrong documentation for "&&var"?
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080108204130.GA8365@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uzlvgrrdo.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:31:31PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Not knowing what was really meant at the implementation level, I'm not
> > sure whether this is a parser implementation bug, or an error in the
> > documentation. Paul thought that this was an error in the documentation
> > so, assuming he is correct, I'm submitting this change on his behalf.
> >
> > So, is this a parser bug or a documentation error?
>
> The original text was there since the first version in CVS (in 1999),
> so I'm inclined to think it's a bug in the parser.
From what I know about parsing C, I suggest we go with the
documentation change. && is a single token, and && NAME is not
currently valid. It would introduce some ambiguities into the
grammer, I suspect.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-08 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-08 6:55 Joel Brobecker
2008-01-08 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-08 20:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-01-11 19:44 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-11 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-12 8:38 ` Joel Brobecker
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