Java: Fix syntax error handling without error token.

[bison.git] / src / system.h

diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h
index 985bbbeed46349fc647588596e95d03df8418a67..9191b55608cb3168569ebef049a0838ce5e804d8 100644 (file)
--- a/src/system.h
+++ b/src/system.h
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 /* System-dependent definitions for Bison.
 
-   Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free
-   Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2000-2007, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-   any later version.
+   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
 
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
@@ -14,8 +13,7 @@
    GNU General Public License for more details.
 
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
-   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
 #ifndef BISON_SYSTEM_H
 #define BISON_SYSTEM_H
@@ -54,6 +52,8 @@
 typedef size_t uintptr_t;
 #endif
 
+// Version mismatch.
+#define EX_MISMATCH 63
 
 /*---------.
 | Gnulib.  |
@@ -68,13 +68,19 @@ typedef size_t uintptr_t;
 | GCC extensions.  |
 `-----------------*/
 
-/* Use this to suppress gcc's `...may be used before initialized'
-   warnings.  */
-#ifdef lint
-# define IF_LINT(Code) Code
-#else
-# define IF_LINT(Code) /* empty */
-#endif
+/* Use PACIFY_CC to indicate that Code is unimportant to the logic of Bison
+   but that it is necessary for suppressing compiler warnings.  For example,
+   Code might be a variable initializer that's always overwritten before the
+   variable is used.
+
+   PACIFY_CC is intended to be useful only as a comment as it does not alter
+   Code.  It is tempting to redefine PACIFY_CC so that it will suppress Code
+   when configuring without --enable-gcc-warnings.  However, that would mean
+   that, for maintainers, Bison would compile with potentially less warnings
+   and safer logic than it would for users.  Due to the overhead of M4,
+   suppressing Code is unlikely to offer any significant improvement in
+   Bison's performance anyway.  */
+#define PACIFY_CC(Code) Code
 
 #ifndef __attribute__
 /* This feature is available in gcc versions 2.5 and later.  */
@@ -124,14 +130,26 @@ typedef size_t uintptr_t;
 | Assertions.  |
 `-------------*/
 
-/* <assert.h>'s assertions are too heavyweight, and can be disabled
-   too easily, so use aver rather than assert.  */
-static inline void
-aver (bool assertion)
-{
-  if (! assertion)
-    abort ();
-}
+/* In the past, Bison defined aver to simply invoke abort in the case of
+   a failed assertion.  The rationale was that <assert.h>'s assertions
+   were too heavyweight and could be disabled too easily.  See
+   discussions at
+   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2006-01/msg00080.html>
+   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2006-09/msg00111.html>.
+
+   However, normal assert output can be helpful during development and
+   in bug reports from users.  Moreover, it's not clear now that
+   <assert.h>'s assertions are significantly heavyweight.  Finally, if
+   users want to experiment with disabling assertions, it's debatable
+   whether it's our responsibility to stop them.  See discussion
+   starting at
+   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-09/msg00013.html>.
+
+   For now, we use assert but we call it aver throughout Bison in case
+   we later wish to try another scheme.
+*/
+#include <assert.h>
+#define aver assert
 
 
 /*-----------.