The IPDL parser handles include statements by using a stack of
parsers. If an inner parser encounters a parsing error, it will print
out an error message, which is maybe okay, but then it makes two
mistakes:
1. It does not pop the current parser off of the parser stack. This
means that the file that included the syntactically invalid file will
be parsed as though it were the invalid file. In bkelly's case, an
.ipdl file included an invalid .ipdlh file, so he got a bizarre error
message about how you can't define a protocol in a header, because the
parser was treating the protocol in the .ipdl file as though it were
in the .ipdlh file. I fixed this by using a "finally" clause to pop
the parser stack, ensuring that it is correct even in case of error.
2. A parse error in the include should cause the entire parse to fail,
but instead it will keep going. inc.tu will get set to None, which
eventually causes an error later in type checking, when it attempts to
examine inc.tu. I fixed this by only catching the parse error where we
invoke the outermost parser. This has the drawback that later errors
in other files will not be reported. An alternate fix would set a
global flag to indicate that a parse error had occured, and somehow
report that to the caller.
I think this bug was introduced in 2009 by commit
cb8189926a69872c73508fba50830f0d07af341f.
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