On 09/14/2012 04:23 PM, Markus Mayer wrote:
> Prior to this change, an empty input file would cause a segfault, because
> yylloc had never been initialized. There was never any characters for the
> lexer to match, so YY_USER_ACTION was never executed before the parse error
> was detected.
> 
> When the parser printed the error message, it tried to include the name of
> the file, but the structure holding the file name (yylloc.file, referenced
> as pos->file) had never been initialized.

> diff --git a/scripts/dtc/treesource.c b/scripts/dtc/treesource.c

>  struct boot_info *dt_from_source(const char *fname)
>  {
> +     extern YYLTYPE yylloc;
> +
>       the_boot_info = NULL;
>       treesource_error = 0;
>  
>       srcfile_push(fname);
>       yyin = current_srcfile->f;
> +     /* Initialize yylloc->file to avoid segfault on empty input */
> +     srcpos_update(&yylloc, NULL, 0);

Wouldn't srcpos_update(&yyloc, fname, 0); be even more informative?

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