[PATCH 09/27] kconfig: remove grammatically ambiguous "unexpected option" diagnostic

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Dec 11 2018 - 06:01:46 EST


This commit decreases 15 shift/reduce conflicts.

The location of this error recovery is ambiguous.

For example, there are two ways to interpret the following code:

1 config FOO
2 bool "foo"

[A] Both lines are reduced together into a config_stmt.

[B] The only line 1 is reduced into a config_stmt, and the line 2
matches to "option_name error T_EOL"

Of course, we expect [A], but [B] could be grammatically possible.

Kconfig has no terminator for a config block. So, we cannot detect its
end until we see non-property keywords. People often insert a blank
line between two config blocks, but it is just a coding convention.
Blank lines are actually allowed anywhere in Kconfig files.

The real error is when a property keyword appears right after "endif",
"endchoice", "endmenu", "source", "comment", or variable assignments.

Instead of fixing the grammatical ambiguity, I chose to simply remove
this error recovery.

The difference is

unexpected option "bool"

... is turned into a more generic message:

invalid statement

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

scripts/kconfig/zconf.y | 11 +----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
index 02bfc62..cef6123 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct symbol *symbol_hash[SYMBOL_HASHSIZE];
static struct menu *current_menu, *current_entry;

%}
-%expect 21
+%expect 6

%union
{
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ static struct menu *current_menu, *current_entry;
%type <expr> expr
%type <expr> if_expr
%type <id> end
-%type <id> option_name
%type <menu> if_entry menu_entry choice_entry
%type <string> symbol_option_arg word_opt assign_val

@@ -127,17 +126,9 @@ stmt_list:
| stmt_list menu_stmt
| stmt_list end { zconf_error("unexpected end statement"); }
| stmt_list T_WORD error T_EOL { zconf_error("unknown statement \"%s\"", $2); }
- | stmt_list option_name error T_EOL
-{
- zconf_error("unexpected option \"%s\"", $2->name);
-}
| stmt_list error T_EOL { zconf_error("invalid statement"); }
;

-option_name:
- T_DEPENDS | T_PROMPT | T_TYPE | T_SELECT | T_IMPLY | T_OPTIONAL | T_RANGE | T_DEFAULT | T_VISIBLE
-;
-
common_stmt:
if_stmt
| comment_stmt
--
2.7.4