don't abort if symbol is NULL in record_declaration

[r24039]

diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 0eccfe0..4952bc5 100644 (file)
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -4893,7 +4893,10 @@ static entity_t *record_entity(entity_t *entity, const bool is_definition)
        const namespace_tag_t    namespc = (namespace_tag_t)entity->base.namespc;
        const source_position_t *pos     = &entity->base.source_position;
 
-       assert(symbol != NULL);
+       /* can happen in error cases */
+       if (symbol == NULL)
+               return entity;
+
        entity_t *previous_entity = get_entity(symbol, namespc);
        /* pushing the same entity twice will break the stack structure */
        assert(previous_entity != entity);