PR11038 Trailing semicolon as null-statement confusing.

* parse.cxx (parser::parse_statement): Squash semicolon after non-block-like
  statements.
* testsuite/buildok/semicolon.stp: New test.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/testsuite/buildok/semicolon.stp b/testsuite/buildok/semicolon.stp
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/testsuite/buildok/semicolon.stp
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+#! stap -p4
+
+# Test that semicolons are really optional (in non-block-like context).
+# PR11038.
+
+global x = 0;
+probe begin
+{
+  if (x) log("true") else log("false")
+  if (x) { log("true") } else { log("false") }
+  if (x) log("true"); else log("false")
+  if (x) log("true") else log("false");
+}
+
+probe end
+{
+  x = 1;
+}