This is something that has always bothered me: with pure parsers (and
they all should be) the user does not have an (easy) access to yynerrs
at the end of the parse. In the case of error recovery, that's the
only direct means to know if there were errors. The usual approach
being having the user maintain a counter incremented each time yyerror
is called.
So here, also capture yynerrs in the return value of the start-symbol
parsing functions.
* data/skeletons/yacc.c (yy_parse_impl_t): New.
(yy_parse_impl): Use it.
(b4_accept): Fill it.
* examples/c/lexcalc/parse.y, examples/c/lexcalc/scan.l: No longer
pass nerrs as lex- and parse-param, just use the resulting yynerrs.
bistromathic and reccalc both demonstrate %param.
After all, why not?
* src/reader.c (switching_token): Use symbol_id_get.
(check_start_symbols): Require that the start symbol is a token only
if it's the only one.
* examples/c/lexcalc/parse.y: Let NUM be a start symbol.
For each start symbol, generate a parsing function with a richer
return value than the usual of yyparse. Reserve a place for the
returned semantic value, in order to avoid having to pass a pointer as
argument to "return" that value. This also makes the call to the
parsing function independent of whether a given start-symbol is typed.
For instance, if the grammar file contains:
%type <int> expression
%start input expression
(so "input" is valueless) we get
typedef struct
{
int yystatus;
} yyparse_input_t;
yyparse_input_t yyparse_input (void);
typedef struct
{
int yyvalue;
int yystatus;
} yyparse_expression_t;
yyparse_expression_t yyparse_expression (void);
This commit also changes the implementation of the parser termination:
when there are multiple start symbols, it is the initial rules that
explicitly YYACCEPT. They do that after having exported the
start-symbol's value (if it is typed):
switch (yyn)
{
case 1: /* $accept: YY_EXPRESSION expression $end */
{ ((*yyvalue).TOK_expression) = (yyvsp[-1].TOK_expression); YYACCEPT; }
break;
case 2: /* $accept: YY_INPUT input $end */
{ YYACCEPT; }
break;
I have tried several ways to deal with termination, and this is the
one that appears the best one to me. It is also the most natural.
* src/scan-code.h, src/scan-code.l (obstack_for_actions): New.
* src/reader.c (grammar_rule_check_and_complete): Generate the actions
of the rules for each start symbol.
* data/skeletons/bison.m4 (b4_symbol_slot): New, with safer semantics
than type and type_tag.
* data/skeletons/yacc.c (b4_accept): New.
Generates the body of the action of the start rules.
(_b4_declare_sub_yyparse): For each start symbol define a dedicated
return type for its parsing function.
Adjust the declaration of its parsing function.
(_b4_define_sub_yyparse): Adjust the definition of the function.
* examples/c/lexcalc/parse.y: Check the case of valueless symbols.
* examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc.test: Check start symbols.
* examples/c/bistromathic/parse.y, examples/c/lexcalc/parse.y,
* examples/c/reccalc/parse.y: here.
Add some comments.
* src/parse-gram.y (api_version): Pull out of handle_require.
Bump to 3.7.
The name "$end" is nice in the report, in particular it avoids that
pointed-rules (aka items) be too long. It also helps keeping them
"standard".
But it is bad in error messages, we should report "end of file" (or
maybe "end of input", this is debatable). So, unless the user already
defined the alias for the error token herself, make it "end of file".
It should even be translated if the user already translated some
tokens, so that there is now no strong reason to redefine the $end
token.
* src/output.c (prepare_symbol_names): Issue "end of file" instead of
"$end".
* data/skeletons/lalr1.java (yytnamerr_): Remove the renaming hack.
* build-aux/update-test: Accept files with names containing a "+",
such as c++.at.
* tests/actions.at, tests/c++.at, tests/conflicts.at,
* tests/glr-regression.at, tests/regression.at, tests/skeletons.at:
Adjust.
The bistromathic example should not use Flex, it makes it too complex.
But it was the only example to show location tracking with Flex.
* examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc.test, examples/c/lexcalc/parse.y,
* examples/c/lexcalc/scan.l: Demonstrate location tracking as is done
in bistromathic.
* examples/c/calc/calc.y: Restore to its original state, with
parse.error=detailed instead of parse.error=custom (this example
should be simple).
* examples/c/calc/calc.test: Check syntax errors.
* examples/c/lexcalc/parse.y: Add comments.
* examples/c/lexcalc/parse.y: Formatting/comment changes.
(line): Don't return a value.
Print the result here, which avoids printing a value for lines with an
error.
(yyerror): Be sure to increment the pointed, not the pointer...
* examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc.test: Check errors.
* examples/c/lexcalc/local.mk: Fix a dependency.
