Supporting YYERROR_VERBOSE via cpp is a nuisance: m4 is in charge of
handling alternatives. When adding more options for %define
parse.error, supporting both CPP and M4 is too complex. Anyway,
YYERROR_VERBOSE was deprecated long ago.
* data/skeletons/yacc.c: Use m4 only to handle verbose/simple error
messages.
I would like to offer new ways to build the error message. As a first
step, let's simplify yysyntax_error whose first loop does two things
at the same time: (i) collect the tokens to be reported in the error
message, and (ii) accumulate their sizes and possibly return
"overflow". Let's pull (ii) in a second step.
Then test 525 (regression.at:1193: parse.error=verbose overflow)
failed. This test checks that we correctly report "memory overflow"
when the error message is too large. However the test is mistaken: it
is triggered in a place where there are five (large) expected tokens,
so anyway we would not display them, so there is no (memory) overflow
here! Transform this test to (i) check that indeed there is no
overflow, and (ii) create syntax_error3 which does check the intended
behavior, but with four expected tokens.
* data/skeletons/yacc.c (yysyntax_error): First compute the list of
arguments, then compute yysize.
* tests/regression.at (parse.error=verbose overflow): Enhance and fix.
GCC's -Wchar-subscripts may report issues on platforms where char is
unsigned. Unfortunately the current CI does not reproduce the
problem. But that would allow contributors to report issues if the
warning appears somewhere.
See 139d065594.
Problem reported by Andy Fiddaman in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2019-12/msg00021.html
* configure.ac (warn_common): Add -Wchar-subscripts.
Problem reported by Andy Fiddaman in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2019-12/msg00021.html
* data/skeletons/yacc.c (yy_reduce_print, yy_lac, yysyntax_error)
(yyreturn): If I might be a char, write a[+I] instead of a[I],
so that ‘gcc -Wchar-subscripts’ does not complain.
Another breakage revealed by vcsn.
* data/skeletons/c++.m4 (yytranslate_): Do not hard code "yy" and
"parser", both can be changed by the user.
Actually, since we are in the parser itself, there's really no need to
qualify the type.
* data/skeletons/glr.c (YYASSERT): Rename as...
(YY_ASSERT): this, for consistency with yacc.c, and also to emphasize
the fact that this is not for the end user (YY_ prefix).
* tests/glr-regression.at: Define parse.assert.
Now that we use small integral types, possibly unsigned (e.g.,
unsigned char), to store state numbers, using -1 to denote an empty
state (i.e., a state that stores no semantical value) is very
dangerous: it will be confused with state 255, which might be
non-empty.
Rather than allocating a larger range of state numbers to keep the
empty-state apart, let's use the number of a state known to store no
value. The initial state, numbered 0, seems to fit perfectly the job.
Reported by Frank Heckenbach.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2019-11/msg00016.html
* data/skeletons/lalr1.cc (empty_state): Be 0.
