In commit
6005e9cb28 a new start state of NEWLINE_CATCHUP was added to the
lexer. This start state is used whenever the lexer is emitting a NEWLINE token
to emit additional NEWLINE tokens for any newline characters that were skipped
by an immediately preceding multi-line comment.
However, that commit erroneously entered the NEWLINE_CATCHUP state for
single-line comments. This is not desired since in the case of a single-line
comment, the lexer is not emitting any NEWLINE token. The result is that the
lexer will remain in the NEWLINE_CATCHUP state and proceed to fail to emit a
NEWLINE token for the subsequent newline character, (since the case to match \n expects only the INITIAL start state).
The fix is quite simple, remove the "BEGIN NEWLINE_CATCHUP" code from the
single-line comment case, (preserving it only in exactly the cases where the
lexer is actually emitting a NEWLINE token).
Many thanks to Petri Latvala for reporting this bug and for providing the
minimal test case to exercise it. The bug showed up only with a multi-line
comment which was followed immediately by a single-line comment (without any
intervening newline), such as:
/*
*/ // Kablam!
Since
6005e9cb28, and before this commit, that very innocent-looking
combination of comments would yield a parse failure in the compiler.
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72686
Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>