On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 09:07:46PM -0500, Greg Price wrote:
> From: Greg Price <pr...@mit.edu>
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:57:41 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Clarify error on directive in macro arguments
> 
> Preprocessor directives in the arguments of a real function
> are innocuous and in some contexts common.  If a developer
> doesn't realize that a "function" is implemented as a macro,
> they may mistake this error for a false alarm.
> 
> See http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1636974.html
> and http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1636976.html
> for an example.
> 
> Easy enough to clarify that this is a macro, so do it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Price <pr...@mit.edu>

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>

Good call.

>  pre-process.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/pre-process.c b/pre-process.c
> index d521318..db58a97 100644
> --- a/pre-process.c
> +++ b/pre-process.c
> @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static struct token *collect_arg(struct token *prev, int 
> vararg, struct position
>               if (next->pos.newline && match_op(next, '#')) {
>                       if (!next->pos.noexpand) {
>                               sparse_error(next->pos,
> -                                          "directive in argument list");
> +                                          "directive in macro argument 
> list");
>                               preprocessor_line(stream, p);
>                               __free_token(next);     /* Free the '#' token */
>                               continue;
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
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