I don't think this style:
/* If buffer is full, make it bigger. */
if (i == length)
{
length *= 2;
symbuf = (char *) realloc (symbuf, length + 1);
}
/* Add this character to the buffer. */
symbuf[i++] = c;
/* Get another character. */
c = getchar ();
or more readable than
/* If buffer is full, make it bigger. */
if (i == length)
{
length *= 2;
symbuf = (char *) realloc (symbuf, length + 1);
}
/* Add this character to the buffer. */
symbuf[i++] = c;
/* Get another character. */
c = getchar ();
Actually, I think the latter is more readable, and helps with width
issues in the PDF. As a matter of fact, I would happily move to //
only for single line comments.
* doc/bison.texi: A single space before closing comments.
* doc/bison.texi: Prefer 'fun' to 'fnct'.
Reduce local variable scopes.
Prefer strdup to malloc + strcpy.
Avoid gratuitous casts.
Use simpler names (e.g., 'name' instead of 'fname').
Avoid uses of 0 for NULL.
Avoid using NULL when possible (e.g., 'p' instead of 'p != NULL').
Prefer union names to casts (e.g. 'yylval.VAR = s' instead of
'*((symrec**) &yylval) = s').
Give arguments a name in fun declarations.
Use our typedefs instead of duplicating them (func_t).
Stop promoting an explicit $$ = $1;, it should be implicit (Bison
might be able to eliminate useless chain rules).
Help a bit Texinfo by making smaller groups.
Rely on the C compiler to call function pointers (prefer
'$1->value.fun ($3)' to (*($1->value.fnctptr))($3)').
When debugging Bison itself, this is very handy, especially when
tweaking the frontend badly enough to break the backends. It can also
be used to check a grammar.
* src/getargs.h, src/getargs.c (feature_syntax_only): New.
(feature_args, feature_types): Adjust.
* src/main.c (main): Use it.
It is inconvenient that we also generate the output files when we
update the grammar file, and it's somewhat unexpected. Let's not do
that.
* src/main.c (main): Skip generation when --update is passed.
* src/getargs.c (usage): Update the help message.
* doc/bison.texi (Bison Options): Likewise.
* tests/input.at: Check that we don't generate the output.
* doc/bison.texi: Use @kbd where appropriate.
Update ^~~~ marks for caret-errors.
* build-aux/cross-options.pl: Do not add quotes to %define's argument.
Reported by Derek Clegg.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2019-01/msg00004.html
* configure.ac (warn_common): Add -Wimplicit-fallthrough.
This does trigger failures in the test suite.
* data/skeletons/glr.c, data/skeletons/lalr1.cc,
* data/skeletons/yacc.c, tests/c++.at:
Make fall-throws explicit.
The previous name was historical and inconsistent.
* src/muscle-tab.c (define_directive): Use the proper value passing
syntax, based on the muscle kind.
(muscle_percent_variable_update): Use the right value passing syntax.
Migrate from parser_class_name to api.parser.class.
* data/skeletons: Migrate from parser_class_name to api.parser.class.
* doc/bison.texi (%define Summary): Document both parser_class_name
and api.parser.class.
Promote the latter over the former.
Suggested by David Barto
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bison/2015-02/msg00004.html
and Victor Zverovich.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2018-10/msg00121.html
This is very easy to do, thanks to work by Bruno Haible in gnulib.
See "Supporting Relocation" in gnulib's documentation.
* bootstrap.conf: We need relocatable-prog and relocatable-script (for yacc).
* src/yacc.in: New.
* configure.ac, src/local.mk: Instantiate it.
* src/main.c, src/output.c (main, pkgdatadir): Use relocatable2.
* doc/bison.texi (FAQ): Document it.
Instead of introducing make_symbol (whose name, btw, somewhat
infringes on the user's "name space", if she defines a token named
"symbol"), let's make the construction of symbol_type safer, using
assertions.
For instance with:
%token ':' <std::string> ID <int> INT;
generate:
symbol_type (int token, const std::string&);
symbol_type (int token, const int&);
symbol_type (int token);
It does mean that now named token constructors (make_ID, make_INT,
etc.) go through a useless assert, but I think we can ignore this: I
assume any decent compiler will inline the symbol_type ctor inside the
make_TOKEN functions, which will show that the assert is trivially
verified, hence I expect no code will be emitted for it. And anyway,
that's an assert, NDEBUG controls it.
* data/c++.m4 (symbol_type): Turn into a subclass of
basic_symbol<by_type>.
Declare symbol constructors when variants are enabled.
* data/variant.hh (_b4_type_constructor_declare)
(_b4_type_constructor_define): Replace with...
(_b4_symbol_constructor_declare, _b4_symbol_constructor_def): these.
Generate symbol_type constructors.
* doc/bison.texi (Complete Symbols): Document.
* tests/types.at: Check.
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.
This change allows one to document (and check) which rules participate
in shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts. This is particularly
important GLR parsers, where conflicts are a normal occurrence. For
example,
%glr-parser
%expect 1
%%
...
argument_list:
arguments %expect 1
| arguments ','
| %empty
;
arguments:
expression
| argument_list ',' expression
;
...
Looking at the output from -v, one can see that the shift-reduce
conflict here is due to the fact that the parser does not know whether
to reduce arguments to argument_list until it sees the token AFTER the
following ','. By marking the rule with %expect 1 (because there is a
conflict in one state), we document the source of the 1 overall shift-
reduce conflict.
In GLR parsers, we can use %expect-rr in a rule for reduce/reduce
conflicts. In this case, we mark each of the conflicting rules. For
example,
%glr-parser
%expect-rr 1
%%
stmt:
target_list '=' expr ';'
| expr_list ';'
;
target_list:
target
| target ',' target_list
;
target:
ID %expect-rr 1
;
expr_list:
expr
| expr ',' expr_list
;
expr:
ID %expect-rr 1
| ...
;
In a statement such as
x, y = 3, 4;
the parser must reduce x to a target or an expr, but does not know
which until it sees the '='. So we notate the two possible reductions
to indicate that each conflicts in one rule.
See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2013-02/msg00105.html.
* doc/bison.texi (Suppressing Conflict Warnings): Document %expect,
%expect-rr in grammar rules.
* src/conflicts.c (count_state_rr_conflicts): Adjust comment.
(rule_has_state_sr_conflicts): New static function.
(count_rule_sr_conflicts): New static function.
(rule_nast_state_rr_conflicts): New static function.
(count_rule_rr_conflicts): New static function.
(rule_conflicts_print): New static function.
(conflicts_print): Also use rule_conflicts_print to report on individual
rules.
* src/gram.h (struct rule): Add new fields expected_sr_conflicts,
expected_rr_conflicts.
* src/reader.c (grammar_midrule_action): Transfer expected_sr_conflicts,
expected_rr_conflicts to new rule, and turn off in current_rule.
(grammar_current_rule_expect_sr): New function.
(grammar_current_rule_expect_rr): New function.
(packgram): Transfer expected_sr_conflicts, expected_rr_conflicts
to new rule.
* src/reader.h (grammar_current_rule_expect_sr): New function.
(grammar_current_rule_expect_rr): New function.
* src/symlist.c (symbol_list_sym_new): Initialize expected_sr_conflicts,
expected_rr_conflicts.
* src/symlist.h (struct symbol_list): Add new fields expected_sr_conflicts,
expected_rr_conflicts.
* tests/conflicts.at: Add tests "%expect in grammar rule not enough",
"%expect in grammar rule right.", "%expect in grammar rule too much."
The "Report translation bugs to..." part of --help is issued only on
glibc systems. So if the tarball is not wrapped on such a system, and
used on such a system (or the converse), then bison.help will differ
on the user's system, and help2man will be called to update bison.1.
But help2man should not be a requirement.
Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
* doc/local.mk (doc/bison.help): Remove the possible doc about
translation bugs.
Pass LC_ALL=C, as reported in src/getargs.c's usage().
(doc/cross-options.texi): Use bison.help instead of calling bison
--help.
* doc/bison.texi (Calc++ Scanner): Show how exception can be thrown
from auxiliary functions.
Clarify the meaning of the various flex %options we use.
Get rid of a warning.
(Calc++ Parsing Driver): Use the parser as a functor.
* doc/bison.texi: Simplify wording.
Fix Texinfo error.
(Complete Symbols): Handle the token EOF.
(Calc++ Parser): In the modern C++ world, prefer assignment to swap.
(Strings are Destroyed): Prefer an explicit 'continue' to a comment.
Suggested by Victor Khomenko.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2018-08/msg00037.html
* doc/bison.texi (A Simple C++ Example): New.
* examples/c++/local.mk, examples/c++/simple.test: New.
Extract, check, and install this new example.
* examples/local.mk: Adjust.
* examples/test: Adjust to the case where the dirname differs
from the test name.
* data/lalr1.cc: Fix oldish comment.
* data/stack.hh: Prefer typename for type names.
Use size() instead of duplicating it.
* examples/variant-11.yy, examples/variant.yy (yylex): Use int,
as this is the type of the semantic value.
When we introduced variants in Bison, C++ did not have the 'emplace'
functions, and we chose 'build'. Let's align with modern C++ and
promote 'emplace' rather than 'build'.
* data/lalr1.cc, data/variant.hh (emplace): New.
(build): Deprecate in favor of emplace.
* doc/bison.texi: Adjust.
As a matter of fact, I think it is wrong to gitignore generated files
that belong to the build tree. There should be the strict minimum,
and it's up to people that build in place to adjust their own
~/.gitignore.
* doc/.gitignore: here.
Remove files we no longer produce (thanks to texi2dvi).
The files stack.hh and position.hh are deprecated. Rather than
devoting specify %define variables to discard them (api.position.file
and api.stack.file), and rather than having to use special rules when
api.location.file is used, let's simply decide that from %require
"3.2" onwards, these files will not be generated.
The only noticeable thing here is that, in order to be able to check
the behavior of %require "3.2", to have this version (which is still
3.1-*) to accept %require "3.2".
* src/gram.h, src/gram.c (required_version): New.
* src/parse-gram.y (version_check): Set it.
* src/output.c (prepare): Pass it m4.
* data/bison.m4 (b4_required_version_if): Receive it and use it.
* data/location.cc, data/stack.hh: Replace the api.*.file with only
required version comparison.
* tests/input.at: No longer check api.stack.file and api.position.file.
* NEWS, doc/bison.texi: Don't mention them.
Document the %require 3.2 behavior.
* tests/output.at: Use %require 3.2 instead.
