yyerror() reports the line number of the next line. This +1 adjustment was introduced more than 20 years ago [1]. At that time, the line number was decremented then incremented back and forth. The line number management was refactored in a more maintainable way. Such compensation is no longer needed. [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=d4f8a4530eb07a1385fd17b0e62a7dce97486f49 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kconfig/parser.y | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/parser.y b/scripts/kconfig/parser.y index 2af7ce4e1531..5ab2e3f7ca33 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/parser.y +++ b/scripts/kconfig/parser.y @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static void zconf_error(const char *err, ...) static void yyerror(const char *err) { - fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d: %s\n", zconf_curname(), zconf_lineno() + 1, err); + fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d: %s\n", zconf_curname(), zconf_lineno(), err); } static void print_quoted_string(FILE *out, const char *str) -- 2.40.1