CPP parser ambiguity

[Robert Knight]

Hi,

Sorry for the spam - I realised my misunderstanding here.  I fixed the
missing errors by holding them in a buffer until after trying to parse
the statement as a declaration or expression and then only reporting
them to KDevelop if the attempt succeeds.  

Regards,
Robert.

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 05:11 +0100, Robert Knight wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The CPP parser has an ExpressionOrDeclarationAST node for statements
> which are valid as both expressions and declarations and there is then
> some logic (IdentifierVerifier) to pick which one to use in the context
> builder.
> 
> Section 6.8 of the C++ standard states:
> 
> "There is an ambiguity in the grammar involving expression-statement s
> and declaration s: An expression-statement with
> a function-style explicit type conversion (5.2.3) as its leftmost
> subexpression can be indistinguishable from a declaration
> where the first declarator starts with a (. In those cases the statement
> is a declaration. "
> 
> Unless I am missing something, it seems like this AST is unnecessary.
> In which case the parser could be changed to treat anything which
> successfully parses as a declaration as a declaration and not anything
> else.
> 
> I found this while investigating disappearing error messages from the
> parser.  In Parser::parseExpressionOrDeclarationStatement() the parser
> blocks all errors to prevent false errors when declarations are parsed
> as exceptions or vice-versa.  Unfortunately this also leads to genuine
> errors going missing.  
> 
> eg:
> 
> int foo =;
> 
> Doesn't report anything.  
>  
> Regards,
> Robert.
>