[PATCH 03/11] dtc: complain about unparsed digits in cell lists

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Jul 18 12:01:04 EST 2007


On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 01:18:48AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
> Check that strtoul() parsed the complete string.
> 
> As with the number overflow case, write a non-fatal error
> message to stdout.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm at bga.com>
> --- 
> I saw the FIXME and knew how to fix it.  
> 
> I think the severity should be higher, but opted for the
> detailed error message compared to the fixed string of
> yyerror() and its immediate termination of parsing.

Yeah, it should really result in a fatal error, but delayed until
after parsing and other error checking is complete.  Yet another one
for the Great Error Handling Rewrite.  This is an improvement for now.

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