From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>
Cc: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] linespec.c change to stop "malformed template specification" error
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 15:14:00 -0000
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Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com> writes:
> Yes, you are correct. That function (find_toplevel_char) would get it wrong
> if we had something like this, even with Dan's patch:
> 
> break foo_class<x>y ? 1 : 2, 4>::foo
> 
> It would think that the greater-than was the end of the template, and
> that the ',' was outside of the template specification.  But, if that
> is a legal expression (I am not sure), how likely would it be?
> Definitely better with Dan's patch than w/o, at least we can catch the
> simpler cases.

Exactly.  We'll have to wait for a real parser before we can DTRT.