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pycparser.plyparser.ParseError on complex struct

I'm trying to use pycparser to parse this C code:

https://github.com/nbeaver/mx-trunk/blob/0b80678773582babcd56fe959d5cfbb776cc0004/libMx/d_adsc_two_theta.c

A repo with a minimal example and Makefile is here:

https://github.com/nbeaver/pycparser-problem

Using pycparser v2.14 (from pip) and gcc 4.9.2 on Debian Jessie.

Things I have tried:

  • Pass the -nostdinc flag to gcc and including the fake_libc_include folder.
  • Use -D'__attribute__(x)=' to take out GCC extensions
  • Use fake headers for e.g. <sys/param.h>
  • Use the -std=c99 in case the code is not C99 compatible.
  • Reproduce the redis example in case there is something weird with my machine.

This is what the traceback looks like:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "just_parse.py", line 21, in <module>
    parse(path)
  File "just_parse.py", line 9, in parse
    ast = pycparser.parse_file(filename)
  File "/home/nathaniel/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycparser/__init__.py", line 93, in parse_file
    return parser.parse(text, filename)
  File "/home/nathaniel/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycparser/c_parser.py", line 146, in parse
    debug=debuglevel)
  File "/home/nathaniel/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycparser/ply/yacc.py", line 265, in parse
    return self.parseopt_notrack(input,lexer,debug,tracking,tokenfunc)
  File "/home/nathaniel/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycparser/ply/yacc.py", line 1047, in parseopt_notrack
    tok = self.errorfunc(errtoken)
  File "/home/nathaniel/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycparser/c_parser.py", line 1680, in p_error
    column=self.clex.find_tok_column(p)))
  File "/home/nathaniel/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycparser/plyparser.py", line 55, in _parse_error
    raise ParseError("%s: %s" % (coord, msg))
pycparser.plyparser.ParseError: in/d_adsc_two_theta.c:63:82: before: .

The traceback points to this line:

https://github.com/nbeaver/mx-trunk/blob/0b80678773582babcd56fe959d5cfbb776cc0004/libMx/d_adsc_two_theta.c#L63

Which in turn points to this #define macro:

https://github.com/nbeaver/mx-trunk/blob/0b80678773582babcd56fe959d5cfbb776cc0004/libMx/mx_motor.h#L484

Solution

  • The cause appears to be the offsetof() function. The minimal working examples are fixed by recent commits, however:

    https://github.com/eliben/pycparser/issues/87