From 95d35795099c28673067882d02ceeb947b04a91b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Whitaker <icarus@martin-whitaker.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:24:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for GitHub issue #163 : assertion failure caused by
 syntax error in task.

(cherry picked from commit 3566ff4cd4abff790b68737f0bcbe5ee1a7c87fe)
---
 parse.y | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index cc7ff53da..da95f2b73 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -2044,7 +2044,10 @@ task_declaration /* IEEE1800-2005: A.2.7 */
 
   | K_task lifetime_opt IDENTIFIER error K_endtask
       {
-	assert(current_task == 0);
+	if (current_task) {
+	      pform_pop_scope();
+	      current_task = 0;
+	}
       }
     endlabel_opt
       { // Last step: check any closing name. This is done late so