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From: gandalf@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pcc misfeature
Message-ID: <780@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 18:16:03 EST
Article-I.D.: russell.780
Posted: Mon Nov 23 18:16:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 00:28:18 EST
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Reply-To: gandalf@russell.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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>....
>	"snoob.c", line 4: syntax error
>	"snoob.c", line 5: illegal character: 134 (octal)
>	"snoob.c", line 5: cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye!
>
>The first error is correct.  The others... you decide. :-)
>....
>-- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.psu.edu

Of course, the subsequent errors are rubbish (from the point of view of a
human reader). Since error recovery still is a major problem for parsers,
they use certain strategies. In this case, lint wasn't very successful...
Anytime I get errors from cc or lint or whatever, I usually don't care too
much about subsequent errors in the lines following a syntx eror.

--Juergen Wagner (gandalf@Russell.stanford.edu)