[Debian #194967] gperf: generates invalid code

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

The following was reported as a bug through the Debian bug tracking system
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responses.

From: Rob Leslie <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 16:09:20 -0700

Package: gperf
Version: 3.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: sid upstream

When the -t option is used, a structured type declaration may appear before
the key words, separated by a '%%' line. Previous versions of gperf allowed
a struct declaration without naming the struct members (which could be placed
instead in a header file.)

For example, the following gperf input used to work:

struct foo;
%%
one, 1
two, 2

Now however, the gperf output is invalid. It generates the following code:

struct foo; *
in_word_set (str, len)
     register const char *str;
     register unsigned int len;
{
  ...

Notice the extra ';' in the return type declaration.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux phobos 2.4.20-3-686-smp #1 SMP Sun May 18 21:32:16 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gperf depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:3.3-2    GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                    1:3.3-2    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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