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todo: update
Reformulate and give more details on my thoughts concerning the graphical visualization, and add an entry about a bug in the options processing for warnings as errors. * TODO: Here.
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* Short term
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** Laxism in Bison invocation arguments:
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The flag_argmatch functions were meant to be generic. The introduction of
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-Werror= in generic code is a bit troublesome, and generates weird
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behaviour. Because seeing "error=" causes Bison to match the subsequent
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categories with a generic procedure, but on a very specific variable, the
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following commands are legal, and equivalent:
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$ bison -Werror=yacc # OK
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$ bison --warnings=error=yacc # err, looks very weird?
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$ bison -rerror=itemsets # this value of 'report' enum has a value
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# of '1 << 1', just like Wyacc
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$ bison --report=error=itemsets # (same)
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$ bison -ferror=caret # (same)
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$ bison --feature=error=caret # (same)
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Basically, writing -rerror={THINGS} or -ferror={FEATURE} is not prohibited,
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and results in UB.
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I don't think there is any reason for the user to expect anything out of
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these options (this implementation-driven behavior is not documented of
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course, as it isn't exactly a feature), so this bug isn't critical but
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should be addressed some day nonetheless.
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** Graphviz display code thoughts
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The code for the --graph option is over two files: print_graph, and
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graphviz. I believe this is because Bison used to also produce VCG graphs,
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but since this is no longer true, maybe we could consider these files for
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fusion.
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graphviz. This is because Bison used to also produce VCG graphs, but since
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this is no longer true, maybe we could consider these files for fusion.
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Little effort factoring seems to have been given to factoring in these files,
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and their print-xml and print counterpart. We would very much like to re-use
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the pretty format of states from .output in the .dot
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An other consideration worth noting is that print_graph.c (correct me if I
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am wrong) should contain generic functions, whereas graphviz.c and other
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potential files should contain just the specific code for that output
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format. It will probably prove difficult to tell if the implementation is
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actually generic whilst only having support for a single format, but it
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would be nice to keep stuff a bit tidier: right now, the construction of the
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bitset used to show reductions is in the graphviz-specific code, and on the
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opposite side we have some use of \l, which is graphviz-specific, in what
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should be generic code.
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Also, the underscore in print_graph.[ch] isn't very fitting considering
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the dashes in the other filenames.
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Little effort seems to have been given to factoring these files and their
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rint{,-xml} counterpart. We would very much like to re-use the pretty format
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of states from .output for the graphs, etc.
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Also, the underscore in print_graph.[ch] isn't very fitting considering the
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dashes in the other filenames.
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Since graphviz dies on medium-to-big grammars, maybe consider an other tool?
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** push-parser
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Check it too when checking the different kinds of parsers. And be
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