errata/175: 13.2: file_path_spec syntax and related issues

From: Shalom Bresticker (Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com)
Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 08:06:51 PST

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    >Number: 175
    >Category: errata
    >Originator: Shalom Bresticker <Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com>
    >Environment:
    >Description:

    file_path_spec is used in library declarations,

    Issues:

    A. Whereas in library_declaration BNF, it appears simply as
    file_path_spec, it appears as <file_path_spec> in include_statement.
    There does not seem to be any reason for the angle brackets.

    B. The production file_path_spec ::= file_path appears to serve no
    useful purpose. The two appear to be synonymous. file_path seems to be
    used only here.

    C. The NOTE following Syntax 13-2 starts,
    "The file_path uses file system-specific notation to specify an absolute
    or relative path to a particular file or set of files."
    Yet it talks about "/". Is that really common to all systems?

    D. Related to errata/99 about library keywords, note that "incdir" can
    be used only as "-incdir", and the "-" may only be followed by "incdir",
    making it even less of a "general" keyword.

    E. Can there be white space between "-" and "incdir"?

    F. There should be examples of use of "-incdir" and of "include".

    G. See related issues 99, 135.

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