Re: [Linux-gpib-general] Supporting C++ style comments in gpib.conf?

[dave p. <dpe...@gm...>]

Hi Dirk,
C++ style comments are easier to add and remove when editing gpib.conf
and any improvement to the error messages is helpful - please send a patch.
cheers,
-Dave

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 at 16:38, Dirk Niggemann <dir...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I modified the lexical analyzer for gpib.conf (ibConfLex.l) to support
> C++  style comments (// to end of line is a comment).
> The only real reason for doing it is that the output from gpib_config is
> totally unhelpful when you use this comment style not knowing any better
> and it breaks.
>
> Is the file modelled on any other system that this would be totally
> incompatible with?
>
> I‘m also thinking of going in and dealing with stray characters in the
> debug/error output as well since the parser seems very brittle and just
> tells you you have an error at line 0 when a stray character (like ‘/‘ from
> an incorrectly used c++ comment) turns up…
>
> Is there any value to this and should I submit a patch?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dirk Niggemann
>
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