Re: yyerror strlen question

2010-01-17 Thread Joel E. Denny
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, tys lefering wrote: > > As I posted earlier today, we have plans to provide an alternative to > > yyerror. One feature we've discussed is the ability to iterate the > > expected tokens and construct the error message yourself. That would > > allow you to place whatever limit

Re: yyerror strlen question

2010-01-17 Thread tys lefering
On Sun, January 17, 2010 22:37, Joel E. Denny wrote: >> and resulting longest string is like this: >> YYCASE_(5, YY_("syntax error, unexpected %s, expecting %s or %s or %s or >> %s")); >> is this correct ? > > For now, but 5 is an arbitrary limit, and I know of no guarantee that > Bison won't evolv

Re: yyerror strlen question

2010-01-17 Thread Joel E. Denny
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, tys lefering wrote: > using YYERROR_VERBOSE in a bison grammar to get a verbose > error message at yyerror() it is not mentioned how large > the error message string may be in the manual or source > http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/bison.html#Error-Reporting As far as