More improvement to comment parsing in ecpg.

ECPG is not supposed to allow and output nested comments in C. These comments
are only allowed in the SQL parts and must not be written into the C file.
Also the different handling of different comments is documented.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
index c629726affe6a642c8fde26e9a2ca0920af479be..120d760ba219bbd814f5be50aae79e076785b62c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ EXEC SQL ...;
    These statements syntactically take the place of a C statement.
    Depending on the particular statement, they can appear at the
    global level or within a function.  Embedded
-   <acronym>SQL</acronym> statements follow the case-sensitivity rules
-   of normal <acronym>SQL</acronym> code, and not those of C.
+   <acronym>SQL</acronym> statements follow the case-sensitivity rules of
+   normal <acronym>SQL</acronym> code, and not those of C. Also they allow nested
+   C-style comments that are part of the SQL standard. The C part of the
+   program, however, follows the C standard of not accepting nested comments.
   </para>
 
   <para>

diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l
index 6deef59d53faa88d213c5815beaca380a3e2dde1..f04e34a53dec95bf47637d002558ec1fa2c18366 100644 (file)
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l
@@ -394,17 +394,20 @@ cppline           {space}*#([^i][A-Za-z]*|{if}|{ifdef}|{ifndef}|{import})(.*\\{space})*.
                    xcdepth++;
                    /* Put back any characters past slash-star; see above */
                    yyless(2);
-                   fputs("/*", yyout);
+                   fputs("/_*", yyout);
                }
 <xcsql>{xcstop}    {
-                   ECHO;
                    if (xcdepth <= 0)
                    {
+                       ECHO;
                        BEGIN(state_before);
                        token_start = NULL;
                    }
                    else
+                   {
                        xcdepth--;
+                       fputs("*_/", yyout);
+                   }
                }
 <xcc>{xcstop}  {
                    ECHO;
@@ -861,6 +864,7 @@ cppline         {space}*#([^i][A-Za-z]*|{if}|{ifdef}|{ifndef}|{import})(.*\\{space})*.
                            }
                        }
                    }
+<C>{xcstop}            { mmerror(PARSE_ERROR, ET_ERROR, "nested /* ... */ comments"); }
 <C>":"             { return(':'); }
 <C>";"             { return(';'); }
 <C>","             { return(','); }