From 9f07e3c16ec85994b7a50760671b86b982a68e8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cary R <cygcary@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:14:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Print a better error message for a '~' token in front of ('&'
 | '|' | '^')

Some users may expect this to work so this patch catches these
specific cases and tells the user to use the singe unary operators
'~&', etc. instead.
---
 parse.y | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 764d99ffc..84a0f2005 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -921,6 +921,21 @@ expression
 		  FILE_NAME(tmp, @2);
 		  $$ = tmp;
 		}
+	| '~' '&' expr_primary %prec UNARY_PREC
+		{ yyerror(@1, "error: '~' '&'  is not a valid expression. "
+			  "Please use operator '~&' instead.");
+		  $$ = 0;
+		}
+	| '~' '|' expr_primary %prec UNARY_PREC
+		{ yyerror(@1, "error: '~' '|'  is not a valid expression. "
+			  "Please use operator '~|' instead.");
+		  $$ = 0;
+		}
+	| '~' '^' expr_primary %prec UNARY_PREC
+		{ yyerror(@1, "error: '~' '^'  is not a valid expression. "
+			  "Please use operator '~^' instead.");
+		  $$ = 0;
+		}
 	| K_NAND expr_primary %prec UNARY_PREC
 		{ PEUnary*tmp = new PEUnary('A', $2);
 		  FILE_NAME(tmp, @2);