Re: [PATCH] gengtype: Handle braced initialisers in structs

[Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 7:38 AM Richard Sandiford via Gcc-patches
<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> I have a patch that adds braced initializers to a GTY structure.
> gengtype didn't accept that, because it parsed the "{ ... }" in
> " = { ... };" as the end of a statement (as "{ ... }" would be in
> a function definition) and so it didn't expect the following ";".
>
> This patch explicitly handles initialiser-like sequences.
>
> Arguably, the parser should also skip redundant ";", but that
> feels more like a workaround rather than the real fix.
>
> Tested on aarch64-linux-gnu & x86_&4-linux-gnu.  OK to install?

OK.

> Richard
>
>
> gcc/
>         * gengtype-parse.cc (consume_until_comma_or_eos): Parse "= { ... }"
>         as a probable initializer rather than a probable complete statement.
> ---
>  gcc/gengtype-parse.cc | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gcc/gengtype-parse.cc b/gcc/gengtype-parse.cc
> index 2b2156c5f45..19184d77899 100644
> --- a/gcc/gengtype-parse.cc
> +++ b/gcc/gengtype-parse.cc
> @@ -450,6 +450,12 @@ consume_until_comma_or_eos ()
>         parse_error ("unexpected end of file while scanning for ',' or ';'");
>         return false;
>
> +      case '=':
> +       advance ();
> +       if (token () == '{')
> +         consume_balanced ('{', '}');
> +       break;
> +
>        default:
>         advance ();
>         break;
> --
> 2.25.1
>