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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-12-17T14·15+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-12-17T14·15+0100
commita9faa7bbce963ddb894699a7cc6ea8a3876e4d9f (patch)
tree480b29447fbf6fdfd80b77736f0ab206010ed77b /src/libexpr
parent338880ee6fc2d8f55dcbe0f0b7313cd69dc866d0 (diff)
showId: Handle empty attribute names
We should probably disallow these, but until then, we shouldn't barf
with an assertion failure.

Fixes #738.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libexpr')
-rw-r--r--src/libexpr/nixexpr.cc5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/libexpr/nixexpr.cc b/src/libexpr/nixexpr.cc
index 35db52a13acc..5bc8e4202a49 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/nixexpr.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/nixexpr.cc
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ static void showString(std::ostream & str, const string & s)
 
 static void showId(std::ostream & str, const string & s)
 {
-    assert(!s.empty());
-    if (s == "if")
+    if (s.empty())
+        str << "\"\"";
+    else if (s == "if") // FIXME: handle other keywords
         str << '"' << s << '"';
     else {
         char c = s[0];