[coyotos-dev] capidl loop

[Charles Landau]

>On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 13:12 -0800, Charles Landau wrote:
>>  Capidl goes into an infinite loop parsing the following:
>>
>>  /** if a > b */
>>
>>  1. It should complain rather than loop.
>>
>>  2. The capidl langauge specification should say that doc comments
>>  must be valid html, if that is the case.
>
>Thank you for the report. Is the example input from one of our files?

No, I was trying to use it on a CapROS file. It took me a while to 
isolate the problem.

>Where does the infinite loop occur?

It is in the "for (;;)" loop in DocComment::parseDocMain. I turned on 
debug, so I know it was executing one of the two
DEBUG(">>>")
statements. I didn't track it any further than that.

>The problem in this case is that the characters >, <, and & must be
>escaped in HTML or XML content. The respective substitutions are:
>
>   <    &lt;
>   >    &gt;
>   &    &amp;

Yes, it no longer looped when I made that change.