Re: Syntax error messages

Akim Demaille <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Sep 2021 22:02:45 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.bison.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Hans,

> Le 27 sept. 2021 à 20:54, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> In order to generate better syntax error messages writing out the input line with the error and a line with a marker underneath, I thought of checking how Bison does it, but I could not find the place in its sources. —Specifically, a suggestion is to tweak YY_INPUT in the lexer to buffer one input line at a time, but Bison does not seem to do that.

No, I keep track of the byte offset in the file, and print from the file, which I reopen to quote the source.

Almost everything is in src/location.[ch].  It is location_caret that quotes the input file and underline the error's location.