The name fixed-output-files is pretty clear: generate y.tab.c, as Yacc
does. So let's detach this from %yacc which does more: it requires
POSIX Yacc behavior.
This directive is obsolete since December 29th 2001
8c9a50bee1. It does not show in the
doc. I don't want to spend more time on improving its diagnostics, it
could be removed just as well as far as I'm concerned.
* src/scan-gram.l, src/parse-gram.y (%fixed-output-files): Detach from
%yacc.
Some members are called foo_location, others are foo_loc. Stick to
the latter.
* src/gram.h, src/location.h, src/location.c, src/output.c,
* src/parse-gram.y, src/reader.h, src/reader.c, src/reduce.c,
* src/scan-gram.l, src/symlist.h, src/symlist.c, src/symtab.h,
* src/symtab.c:
Use _loc consistently, not _location.
Single point locations (equal boundaries) are troublesome, and we were
incorrectly ending the style in their case. Which results in an abort
in libtextstyle.
There is also a confusion between columns as displayed on the
screen (which take into account multibyte characters and tabulations),
and the number of bytes. Counting the screen-column
incrementally (character by character) is uneasy (because of multibyte
characters), and I don't want to maintain a buffer of the current line
when displaying the diagnostic. So I believe the simplest solution is
to track the byte number in addition to the screen column.
* src/location.h, src/location.c (boundary): Add the byte-column.
Adjust dependencies.
* src/getargs.c, src/scan-gram.l: Adjust.
* tests/diagnostics.at: Check zero-width locations.
The variable spec_defines_file denotes the name of the generated
header. Its name is derived from --defines/%defines, whose name in
turn is derived from the fact that the header, in Yacc, contained the
Not only does the header now contain a lot more than just the token
definitions, but we no longer even generate macros, but an enum...
Let's modernize our vocabulary.
* src/files.h, src/files.c (spec_defines_file): Rename as...
(spec_header_file): this.
Reported by Hans Åberg.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bison/2019-02/msg00064.html
* src/files.c (spec_graph_file): Use `*.gv` when 3.4 or better,
otherwise `*.dot`.
* src/parse-gram.y (handle_require): Pretend we are already 3.4.
* doc/bison.texi: Adjust.
* tests/local.at, tests/output.at: Exercise this.
* src/parse-gram.y: Use the location of the whole definition to record
the location of a %define variable, instead of just the name of the
variable.
Adjust tests.
I personally prefer 'non terminal', or 'non-terminal', but
'nonterminal' is the common spelling.
* data/glr.c, src/parse-gram.y, src/symtab.c, src/symtab.h,
* tests/input.at, doc/refcard.tex: here.
grammar_current_rule_action_append was used in two different places:
for actual action (`{...}`), and for predicates (`%?{...}`). Let's
split this in two different functions.
* src/reader.h, src/reader.c (grammar_current_rule_predicate_append): New.
Extracted from...
(grammar_current_rule_action_append): here.
Remove arguments that don't apply.
Adjust dependencies.
Currently on the following grammar:
%type <foo> foo
%%
start: foo | bar | "baz"
foo: foo
bar: bar
bison reports:
warning: 2 nonterminals useless in grammar [-Wother]
warning: 4 rules useless in grammar [-Wother]
1.13-15: warning: nonterminal useless in grammar: foo [-Wother]
%type <foo> foo
^^^
3.14-16: warning: nonterminal useless in grammar: bar [-Wother]
start: foo | bar | "baz"
^^^
[...]
i.e., the location of the first occurrence of a symbol is taken as its
definition point. In the case of nonterminals, the first occurrence
as a left-hand side of a rule makes more sense:
warning: 2 nonterminals useless in grammar [-Wother]
warning: 4 rules useless in grammar [-Wother]
4.1-3: warning: nonterminal useless in grammar: foo [-Wother]
foo: foo
^^^
5.1-3: warning: nonterminal useless in grammar: bar [-Wother]
bar: bar
^^^
[...]
* src/symtab.h, src/symtab.c (symbol::location_of_lhs): New.
(symbol_location_as_lhs_set): New.
* src/parse-gram.y (current_lhs): Use it.
* tests/reduce.at: Update locations.
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.
