Hi all,
Errors from Bison look like this:
parser.y:876.63: invalid character: `}'
This format differs in a small detail from the usual GCC one and so,
for instance, the Vim editor doesn't understand it; it won't jump to
the error location.
If we change it to:
parser.y:876:63: invalid character: `}'
^
colon, not dot!
then everything is cool. It now looks like a GNU C error message,
and Vim jumps to line 876, putting the cursor on the offending
closing brace.
I understand that of course this can be worked around from the editor
side. (Vim has quite a few entries in it default "errorformat" list of
patterns. Maybe a new version than what I'm using has added the
pattern for Bison.)
Still, why have, in GNU Bison, a gratuitous difference in error
reporting relative to GNU C.
