Request for better syntax checking in lang.opt

[Martin Liška]

On 2/20/20 7:08 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
>> Sure, I can improve sanity checking.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> What exactly have you screwed up?
> I had, in lang.opt
> 
> EnumValue
> Enum (gfc_fcoarray) String (native) Value (GFC_FCOARRAY_NATIVE)
> 
> It was a bit non-obvious to me that this led to the whole sub-option
> being ignored due to
> 
> *drum roll*
> 
> the space between the keywords and the opening parenthesis.  I have
> internalized the GNU style guides to such an extent that I hardly
> ever see the space there :-)

Hello.

I was able to write a sanity check for these kind of issues, but it does
not resolve all similar issues for other keywords. It's not easy to do it.

Martin

> 
> Regards
> 
>  Â Â Â Â Thomas

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