Module Name:    src
Committed By:   rillig
Date:           Mon Jul 26 17:27:22 UTC 2021

Modified Files:
        src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1: expr_precedence.c expr_precedence.exp
        src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1: cgram.y

Log Message:
lint: fix parsing of chained assignments (since 2021-07-15)

The grammar rule for assignment_expression is quite different from those
of the other expressions, for 2 reasons: first, its precedence is
right-to-left.  Second, its left-hand side must be an lvalue, which
rules out all binary operators.  K&R C even had a grammar rule named
'lvalue' for this purpose.  Later C standards made the kinds of
expressions more fine-grained and used 'unary_expression' in this place.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.c \
    src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.exp
cvs rdiff -u -r1.347 -r1.348 src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/cgram.y

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.c
diff -u src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.c:1.4 src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.c:1.5
--- src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.c:1.4	Mon Jul 26 17:09:46 2021
+++ src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.c	Mon Jul 26 17:27:22 2021
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$NetBSD: expr_precedence.c,v 1.4 2021/07/26 17:09:46 rillig Exp $	*/
+/*	$NetBSD: expr_precedence.c,v 1.5 2021/07/26 17:27:22 rillig Exp $	*/
 # 3 "expr_precedence.c"
 
 /*
@@ -42,8 +42,11 @@ assignment_associativity(int arg)
 {
 	int left, right;
 
-	/* FIXME */
-	/* expect+1: error: left operand of '=' must be lvalue [114] */
+	/*
+	 * Assignments are right-associative.  If they were left-associative,
+	 * the result of (left = right) would be an rvalue, resulting in this
+	 * error message: 'left operand of '=' must be lvalue [114]'.
+	 */
 	left = right = arg;
 
 	left = arg;
Index: src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.exp
diff -u src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.exp:1.4 src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.exp:1.5
--- src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.exp:1.4	Mon Jul 26 17:09:46 2021
+++ src/tests/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/expr_precedence.exp	Mon Jul 26 17:27:22 2021
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@ expr_precedence.c(15): error: syntax err
 expr_precedence.c(18): error: non-constant initializer [177]
 expr_precedence.c(35): error: 'var' undefined [99]
 expr_precedence.c(35): error: syntax error '=' [249]
-expr_precedence.c(47): error: left operand of '=' must be lvalue [114]

Index: src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/cgram.y
diff -u src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/cgram.y:1.347 src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/cgram.y:1.348
--- src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/cgram.y:1.347	Mon Jul 26 17:15:24 2021
+++ src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/cgram.y	Mon Jul 26 17:27:22 2021
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 %{
-/* $NetBSD: cgram.y,v 1.347 2021/07/26 17:15:24 rillig Exp $ */
+/* $NetBSD: cgram.y,v 1.348 2021/07/26 17:27:22 rillig Exp $ */
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 1996 Christopher G. Demetriou.  All Rights Reserved.
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
 #if defined(__RCSID) && !defined(lint)
-__RCSID("$NetBSD: cgram.y,v 1.347 2021/07/26 17:15:24 rillig Exp $");
+__RCSID("$NetBSD: cgram.y,v 1.348 2021/07/26 17:27:22 rillig Exp $");
 #endif
 
 #include <limits.h>
@@ -691,10 +691,10 @@ conditional_expression:
 /* K&R ???, C90 ???, C99 6.5.16, C11 6.5.16 */
 assignment_expression:
 	  conditional_expression
-	| assignment_expression T_ASSIGN conditional_expression {
+	| unary_expression T_ASSIGN assignment_expression {
 		$$ = build_binary($1, ASSIGN, $3);
 	  }
-	| assignment_expression T_OPASSIGN conditional_expression {
+	| unary_expression T_OPASSIGN assignment_expression {
 		$$ = build_binary($1, $2, $3);
 	  }
 	;

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