Prompted by Rici Lake.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2018-10/msg00000.html
We have four classes of directives that declare symbols: %nterm,
%type, %token, and the family of %left etc. Currently not all of them
support the possibility to have several type tags (`<type>`), and not
all of them support the fact of not having any type tag at all
(%type). Let's unify this.
- %type
POSIX Yacc specifies that %type is for nonterminals only. However,
some Bison users want to use it for both tokens and nterms
(actually, Bison's own grammar does this in several places, e.g.,
CHAR). So it should accept char/string literals.
As a consequence cannot be used to declare tokens with their alias:
`%type foo "foo"` would be ambiguous (are we defining foo = "foo",
or are these two different symbols?)
POSIX specifies that it is OK to use %type without a type tag. I'm
not sure what it means, but we support it.
- %token
Accept token declarations with number and string literal:
(ID|CHAR) NUM? STRING?.
- %left, etc.
They cannot be the same as %token, because we accept to declare the
symbol with %token, and to then qualify its precedence with %left.
Then `%left foo "foo"` would also be ambiguous: foo="foo", or two
symbols.
They cannot be simply a list of identifiers, but POSIX Yacc says we
can declare token numbers here. I personally think this is a bad
idea, precedence management is tricky in itself and should not be
cluttered with token declaration issues.
We used to accept declaring a token number on a string literal here
(e.g., `%left "token" 1`). This is abnormal. Either the feature is
useful, and then it should be supported in %token, or it's useless
and we should not support it in corner cases.
- %nterm
Obviously cannot accept tokens, nor char/string literals. Does not
exist in POSIX Yacc, but since %type also works for terminals, it is
a nice option to have.
* src/parse-gram.y: Avoid relying on side effects. For instance, get
rid of current_type, rather, build the list of symbols and iterate
over it to assign the type.
It's not always possible/convenient. For instance, we still use
current_class.
Prefer "decl" to "def", since in the rest of the implementation we
actually "declare" symbols, we don't "define" them.
(token_decls, token_decls_for_prec, symbol_decls, nterm_decls): New.
Use them for %token, %left, %type and %nterm.
* src/symlist.h, src/symlist.c (symbol_list_type_set): New.
* tests/regression.at b/tests/regression.at
(Token number in precedence declaration): We no longer accept
to give a number to string literals.
The previous name is too obscure, and the other macros for C++ use
CXX, not CC.
* tests/local.at (AT_SKEL_CC_IF, AT_SKEL_JAVA_IF): Rename as...
(AT_CXX_IF, AT_JAVA_IF): these.
Adjust callers.
* src/symtab.c (symbol_precedence_set): Use prec_location, not
location (which is the first occurrence of the symbol, possibly just
%token).
Also, as redefinitions are not allowed, keep the first values, not
the subsequent ones.
* tests/conflicts.at, tests/existing.at, tests/regression.at: Adjust.
* src/gram.c (grammar_rules_useless_report): Let -fcaret handle the
pretty-printing of the guilty rules.
(rule_print): Inline in its only use.
* tests/conflicts.at, tests/existing.at, tests/reduce.at,
* tests/regression.at: Adjust.
* NEWS: Document.
The new warning category "precedence" flags useless precedence and
associativity. -Wprecedence can now be used, it is disabled by default.
The warnings about precedence and associativity are grouped into one, and
the testsuite was corrected accordingly.
* src/complain.h (warnings): Introduce "precedence".
* src/complain.c (warnings_print_categories): Adjust.
* src/getargs.c (warnings_args, warning_types): Likewise.
* src/symtab.h, src/symtab.c (print_associativity_warnings): Remove.
* src/symtab.h (register_assoc): Correct arguments.
* src/symtab.c (print_precedence_warnings): Print both warnings together.
* doc/bison.texi (Bison options): Document the warnings and provide an
example.
* tests/conflicts.at, tests/existing.at, tests/local.at,
* tests/regression.at: Adapt the testsuite for the new category
(-Wprecedence instead of -Wother where appropriate).
Record which symbol associativity is used, and display useless ones.
* src/symtab.h, src/symtab.c (register_assoc, print_assoc_warnings): New
* src/symtab.c (init_assoc, is_assoc_used): New
* src/main.c: Use print_assoc_warnings
* src/conflicts.c: Use register_assoc
* tests/conflicts.at (Useless associativity warning): New.
Due to the new warning, many tests had to be updated.
* tests/conflicts.at tests/existing.at tests/regression.at:
Add the associativity warning in the expected results.
* tests/java.at: Fix the java calculator's grammar to remove a useless
associativity.
* doc/bison.texi (mfcalc example): Fix associativity to remove
warning.
* cfg.mk: Ignore strcmp in local.at.
* tests/conflicts.at: Use AT_PARSER_CHECK.
* tests/regression.at: Preserve the exit status of the generated parsers.
* tests/local.mk ($(TESTSUITE)): Map @tb@ to a tabulation.
* tests/c++.at, tests/input.at, tests/regression.at: Use @tb@.
* cfg.mk: (space-tab): There are no longer exceptions.
Many tests were using %defines because C++ skeletons used to require
it.
* tests/actions.at, tests/c++.at, tests/input.at, tests/regression.at:
Remove useless %defines.
Recent changes (in 2.7) introduced a dependency on both FILE and
fprintf, which are "available" only in %debug mode. This was to
define yy_location_print_, which is used only in %debug mode by the
parser, but massively used by the test suite to output the locations
in yyerror.
Break this dependency: the test suite should define its own routines
to display the locations. Eventually Bison will provide the user with
a means to display locations, but not yet.
* data/c.m4 (b4_yy_location_print_define): Use YYFPRINTF instead of
fprintf directly.
* data/yacc.c (b4_yy_location_print_define): Invoke it only in %debug
mode, so that stdio.h is included (needed for FILE*), and YYFPRINTF
is defined.
* tests/local.at (AT_YYERROR_DECLARE, AT_YYERROR_DEFINE): Declare
and define location_print and LOCATION_PRINT.
* tests/actions.at, tests/existing.at, tests/glr-regression.at,
* tests/input.at, tests/named-refs.at, tests/regression.at: Adjust
to use them.
Fix the expected line numbers (as the prologue's length has changed).
* tests/local.at (AT_MAIN_DEFINE): If %debug is used, check if
-d/--debug is passed to the generated parser, and enable the traces.
Return exactly the result of yyparse, so that we can check exit code
2 too.
* tests/actions.at, tests/glr-regression.at, tests/regression.at:
Use AT_MAIN_DEFINE, helping AT_BISON_OPTION_PUSHDEFS where needed,
preferably to option -t.
* origin/maint:
misc: pacify the Tiny C Compiler
cpp: make the check of Flex version portable
misc: require getline
c++: support wide strings for file names
doc: document carets
tests: enhance existing tests with carets
errors: show carets
getargs: add support for --flags/-f
Conflicts:
doc/bison.texi
m4/.gitignore
src/complain.c
src/flex-scanner.h
src/getargs.c
src/getargs.h
src/gram.c
src/main.c
tests/headers.at
* tests/actions.at: Unset value.
* tests/conflicts.at: Rule useless due to conflicts.
* tests/input.at: Missing terminator, unexpected end of file, command line
redefinition of variable.
* tests/named-refs.at: Many errors.
* tests/reduce.at: Useless nonterminals and rules.
* tests/regression.at: Large token.
* origin/maint:
tests: close files in glr-regression
xml: match DOT output and xml2dot.xsl processing
xml: factor xslt space template
graph: fix a memory leak
xml: documentation
output: capitalize State
* origin/maint:
maint: address syntax-check errors.
tests: use valgrind where appropriate
tests: use valgrind where appropriate
tests: don't expect $EGREP to support -w
tests: more possible error compiler messages for "#error"
Conflicts:
cfg.mk
tests/headers.at
Reported by Théophile Ranquet.
* tests/glr-regression.at: Rewrite some test cases so that AT_PARSER_CHECK,
which runs valgrind, is exposed with the parser, not with "echo".
* tests/local.at, tests/regression.at, tests/headers.at:
Use AT_PARSER_CHECK for generated parsers.
* tests/local.at (AT_PARSE_PARAMS): New.
(AT_YYERROR_FORMALS, AT_YYERROR_DEFINE): Use it to add the parse-param
to yyerror.
* tests/calc.at, tests/regression.at: Use AT_YYERROR_DEFINE and
AT_YYERROR_DECLARE, now that they handle properly the parse-params.
Be sure to let AT_BISON_OPTION_PUSHDEFS now what parse-params are used.
This improves readability. This is also what gcc does.
* NEWS: Document this change.
* src/complain.c (complain_at): Prefix all errors with "error: ".
(complain_at_indent, warn_at_indent): Do not prefix the context
information of errors, which are basically just indented errors.
* tests/conflicts.at, tests/glr-regression.at, tests/input.at,
tests/named-refs.at, tests/output.at, tests/push.at,
tests/regression.at, tests/skeletons.at: Apply this change.
Signed-off-by: Akim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr>
The current routines used to display s/r and r/r conflicts are both
inconvenient from the programmer point of view (they do not use the
warning infrastructure) and for the user (the messages are rather
terse, not necessarily pleasant to read, and because they don't use
the same routines, they look different).
It was due to the belief (dating back to the initial checked-in
version of Bison) that, at some point, POSIX Yacc mandated the format
for these messages. Today, the Open Group's manual page for Yacc,
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/yacc.html>,
explicitly states that the format of these messages is unspecified.
See commit be7280480c and
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2002-12/msg00027.html>.
For a discussion on the chosen warning format, see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2012-09/msg00039.html
In an effort to factor the handling of errors and warnings, use the
Bison warning routines to report these messages.
* src/conflicts.c (conflicts_print): Rewrite with clearer sections
about S/R and then R/R conflicts.
(conflict_report): Remove, inlined in its sole
caller...
(conflicts_output): here.
* tests/conflicts.at, tests/existing.at, tests/glr-regression.at,
* tests/reduce.at, tests/regression.at: Adjust the expected results.
* NEWS: Update.
* origin/maint:
maint: post-release administrivia
version 2.6.2
NEWS: update.
yacc: remove trailing end of line at end of file
thanks: fix a contributor name
gnulib: update
tests: synch line -> syncline, for consistency
tests: synclines: style changes
tests: synclines: fix perl invocation
regen
c++: trailing end-of-lines in %parse-param
tests: simplify
Conflicts:
cfg.mk
data/glr.cc
data/yacc.c
src/parse-gram.c
src/parse-gram.h
src/parse-gram.y
* src/parse-gram.y (add_param): No only skip ' ' and '\t', skip all
leading and trailing spaces.
* tests/regression.at (Lex and parse params): Check it.
* NEWS: Document it.
* origin/maint:
tests: use the generalized default yylex.
tests: AT_YYERROR_DEFINE: prepare for list of ints.
skeletons: no longer define YYLSP_NEEDED.
c++: do not export YYTOKEN_TABLE and YYERROR_VERBOSE.
Conflicts:
data/c.m4
data/glr.cc
data/lalr1.cc
doc/bison.texi
tests/regression.at