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From: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: Re: g++ parse error ? (g++.1.36.1-)
Keywords: g++
Message-ID: <1989Nov21.141043.25717@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 89 22:10:43 GMT
References: <504@tnosoes.UUCP>
Reply-To: Ron Guilmette <rfg@ics.uci.edu>
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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In article <504@tnosoes.UUCP> tom@tnosoes.UUCP (Tom Vijlbrief) writes:
>g++ cannot parse the following.
>
>Is this a compiler error or a C++ problem ?

...
>opis.c:6: parse error at end of input

I have seen this type of error message (also issued at lines in the *middle*
of some source files) before.

In my case, this was due to the fact that (a) the setbuf() routine on SystemV
behaves badly if you try to set the buffer to a buffer which is only 8
bytes or less in length, and (b) cplus-lex.c has not yet been fixed to account
for this System-5 specific problem, and (c) I was running G++ under System V.

If you are using System V, look at the calls to setbuf() in cplus-lex.c.
I believe that there are special #ifdefs in those two vicinities that
are for i386, and that the i386 case should be right for *all* system V
machines.

I hope that helps.

P.S.  The setbuf() routine comes into play because G++ saves the bodies of
inline routines away in "buffers" which it later goes back and re-reads.

// rfg