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The genksyms parser has ambiguities in its grammar, which are currently
suppressed by a workaround in scripts/genksyms/Makefile.
Building genksyms with W=1 generates the following warnings:
YACC scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.[ch]
scripts/genksyms/parse.y: warning: 9 shift/reduce conflicts [-Wconflicts-sr]
scripts/genksyms/parse.y: warning: 5 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Wconflicts-rr]
scripts/genksyms/parse.y: note: rerun with option '-Wcounterexamples' to generate conflict counterexamples
The comment in the parser describes the current problem:
/* This wasn't really a typedef name but an identifier that
shadows one. */
Consider the following simple C code:
typedef int foo;
void my_func(foo foo) {}
In the function parameter list (foo foo), the first 'foo' is a type
specifier (typedef'ed as 'int'), while the second 'foo' is an identifier.
However, the lexer cannot distinguish between the two. Since 'foo' is
already typedef'ed, the lexer returns TYPE for both instances, instead
of returning IDENT for the second one.
To support shadowed identifiers, TYPE can be reduced to either a
simple_type_specifier or a direct_abstract_declarator, which creates
a grammatical ambiguity.
Without analyzing the grammar context, it is very difficult to resolve
this correctly.
This commit introduces a flag, dont_want_type_specifier, which allows
the parser to inform the lexer whether an identifier is expected. When
dont_want_type_specifier is true, the type lookup is suppressed, and
the lexer returns IDENT regardless of any preceding typedef.
After this commit, only 3 shift/reduce conflicts will remain.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.