[Bug translator/10913] bad/misleading translator error message

[jistone at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From jistone at redhat dot com  2009-11-06 20:11 -------
The problem is in the tokenizer -- it treats an entire "%{...%}" as one big
tok_embedded token.  If it doesn't find the closing, you instead get a tok_junk
"%{...EOF".

You get similar weirdness from unterminated strings:

$ stap -ve 'global s = "foo'
parse error: expected literal string or number
	saw: junk 'foo' at <input>:1:12
     source: global s = "foo
                        ^

IMO, there no use for the tokenizer to generate tok_junk -- it should just throw
an error right away indicating *why* it is junk...

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10913

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