Bug #79576 [Opn->Asn]: "TYPE *" shows unhelpful message when type is not defined

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79576&edit=1 ID: 79576 Updated by: dmitry@php.net Reported by: grzegorz129 at gmail dot com Summary: "TYPE *" shows unhelpful message when type is not defined -Status: Open +Status: Assigned Type: Bug Package: *Extensibility Functions Operating System: macOS 10.15.4 PHP Version: 7.4.5 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: dmitry Block user comment: N Private report: N Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-09-14 15:09:39] cmb@php.net The following pull request has been associated: Patch Name: In FFI, assume that identifier is a typedef if followed by '*' in parameter list On GitHub: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5733 Patch: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5733.patch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-06-17 21:03:43] alexdowad@php.net Just hacked up a little patch which improves the error messages in this (and similar) cases. I'm sure there are other cases which it doesn't cover, but anyways, I'll submit it and see what the maintainers say. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-05-09 12:16:55] cmb@php.net This is closely related to bug #78253, if not a duplicate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-05-08 19:23:45] grzegorz129 at gmail dot com Yes, in this example (since I'm only slightly familiar with C) it took ma a longer while to realize that the definition is correct but the type is missing. However, another example where I've got the same error about unsupported type was much more complex and really made me believe it's not supported (while in reality it was just missing "netsnmp_variable_list" typedef): struct tree { #... int (*printomat) (u_char **, size_t *, size_t *, int, const netsnmp_variable_list *, const struct enum_list *, const char *, const char *); #... } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-05-08 19:11:45] nikic@php.net Is the "bug" here that the error message should be improved? GCC reports this as: > test.c:4:29: error: unknown type name ‘oid’ which is more obvious. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79576 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79576&edit=1