Bison supports a union tag, for obscure reasons. But it does a poor
job at it, especially since Bison 3.0.
Reported by Stephen Cameron and Tobias Frost.
It did not ensure that the name was not given several times. An easy
way to do this is to make the %union tag be handled as a %define
variable, as they cannot be defined several times.
Since Bison 3.0, the synclines were wrongly placed, resulting in
invalid code. Addressing this issue, because of the way the union tag
was stored (as a code muscle), would have been tedious. Unless we
rather define the %union tag as a %percent variable, whose synclines
are easier to manipulate.
So replace the b4_union_name muscle by the api.value.union.name
%define variable, document, and check.
* data/bison.m4: Make sure that api.value.union.name has a keyword value.
* data/c++.m4: Make sure that api.value.union.name is not defined.
* data/c.m4 (b4_union_name): No longer use it, use api.value.union.name.
* doc/bison.texi (%define Summary): Document it.
* src/parse-gram.y (union_name): No longer define b4_uion_name, but
api.value.union.name.
* tests/input.at (Redefined %union name): New.
* tests/synclines.at (%union name syncline): New.
* tests/types.at: Check named %unions.
Now that we use "braceless" (which is {...} blocks of code with
initial and final braces stripped) to denote "short" values (such as
api.namespaces), the added end-of-line is a nuisance. As a matter of
fact, this extra-safety was useless, as every expansion of "braceless"
(aka, "user code") is followed by an end of line.
* src/parse-gram.y, src/parse-gram.c (braceless): Instead of replacing
the final brace by \n, just delete the brace.
"stype" is quite unclear, and it also collides with the former %define
variable that had the same name (replaced by api.value.type).
* src/parse-gram.y (stype): Rename as...
(union_members): this.
* data/bison.m4: Adjust.
(b4_user_stype): Rename as...
(b4_user_union_members): this.
* data/c++.m4, data/c.m4: Adjust.
* src/parse-gram.c: regen.
* origin/maint:
maint: remove useless file
update files to ignore
remove useless include
use locale-indep. c_is* functions for parsing, not isspace, isprint etc
gnulib: update
--help: include a place to report translation issues
tests: style changes
tests: fix push-pull test
yacc.c: style changes
Conflicts:
src/system.h
* src/parse-gram.y: Include "c-ctype.h".
(add_param): Parse with c_isspace, not isspace.
* src/parse-gram.c: Likewise.
* src/scan-gram.l: Include c-ctype.h, not ctype.h.
(SC_ESCAPED_STRING,SC_ESCAPED_CHARACTER): Use c_isspace and c_isprint,
not ctype.h's locale-dependent functions.
There are still spurious spaces at the end of some lines. But this is
addressed in the master branch, and I am reluctant to try to backport
this.
* data/yacc.c, data/glr.c, data/lalr1.cc, data/glr.cc: here.
* tests/calc.at (AT_CHECK_SPACES): New.
Use it.
Be sure not to introduce trailing empty lines in the *.y files.
* NEWS: Doc it.
* cfg.mk (syntax-check): Remove the exception.