Discussed starting at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-08/msg00036.html>.
* src/scan-gram.l (SC_ESCAPED_STRING, SC_ESCAPED_CHARACTER):
For a \0 and similar escape sequences meaning the null
character, report an invalid escape sequence instead of an
invalid null character because the latter does not actually
appear in the user's input.
In all escape sequence complaints, don't escape the initial
backslash, and don't quote when the sequence appears at the end
of the complaint line unless there's whitespace that quotearg
won't escape.
Consistently say "invalid" not "unrecognized".
Consistently prefer "empty character literal" over "extra
characters in character literal" warning for invalid escape
sequences; that is, consistently discard those sequences.
* tests/input.at (Bad escapes in literals): New.
* gnulib: Update.
* .x-update-copyright (COPYING): Add as it's no longer implied
when .x-update-copyright is present.
* cfg.mk (update-copyright-local): Remove, now ignored.
(update-copyright): Declare update-b4-copyright as a dependency.
Continues Akim's work from his 2009-06-10 commits.
* src/reader.c (check_and_convert_grammar): Don't add any
symbols after the first symbols_do invocation.
* src/symtab.c (symbols_sorted): New static global.
(user_token_number_redeclaration): Update comments.
(symbol_from_uniqstr): If a new symbol is being created, assert
that symbols_sorted hasn't been allocated yet.
(symbols_free): Free symbols_sorted.
(symbols_cmp, symbols_cmp_qsort): New functions.
(symbols_do): Sort symbol_table into symbols_sorted on first
invocation.
* tests/input.at (Numbered tokens): Recombine tests now that the
output should be deterministic across multiple numbers.
* src/reader.c (reader): Move %define front-end variable
defaults and checking into...
(prepare_percent_define_front_end_variables): ... this new
function.
* src/scan-gram.l (INITIAL): For consistency with string
literals, don't store open quote on character literal. It's
discarded before returning anyway.
(SC_ESCAPED_CHARACTER): Similarly, don't store close quote.
Make length test more readable, and make the character stored
for an empty literal more obvious while consistent with the
previous behavior.
* src/symtab.c, src/symtab.h: Rename USER_NUMBER_ALIAS to
USER_NUMBER_HAS_STRING_ALIAS throughout.
* src/symtab.c (symbol_make_alias): Remove comment from symtab.c
that is repeated in symtab.h. Improve argument names to make it
clear which side of the symbol-string alias pair is which.
(symbol_check_alias_consistency): Improve local variable names
for the same purpose.
* src/symtab.h (struct symbol): Make comments about aliases
clearer.
(symbol_make_alias): Improve comments and argument name.
* src/output.c (token_definitions_output): Update for rename to
USER_NUMBER_HAS_STRING_ALIAS and improve comments about aliases.
* build-aux/update-b4-copyright: In warnings, report line
numbers rather than character positions.
* cfg.mk (update-copyright-local): Set to update-b4-copyright so
that update-copyright runs it.
* gnulib: Update.
* build-aux/update-b4-copyright: Do not accept 2-digit
UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, which was not handled correctly.
Don't accept a `[' in a b4_copyright argument.
Format code more consistently.
Don't assume b4*copyright never occurs.
Reported by Alex Rozenman. This warning shows up with gcc-4.3.0
and later.
* src/scan-code.l: Add "%option noinput", which I cannot find in
the Flex manual, but which Flex has supported since at least as
far back as 2.5.4. However, if any of our developers still use
Flex 2.5.4, they'll need to stop configuring with
--enable-gcc-warnings because "%option noinput" didn't work
correctly until Flex 2.5.6.
* src/scan-gram.l: Likewise.
* src/scan-skel.l: Likewise.
(cherry picked from commit 42f8609bbd)
* NEWS (2.5): Document.
* src/scan-gram.l (INITIAL): Remove comment that we don't check
the length.
(SC_ESCAPED_CHARACTER): Warn if length is wrong.
* tests/input.at (Bad character literals): New test group.
(cherry picked from commit ac9b0e954b)
Suggested by Eric Blake at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-04/msg00083.html>.
* tests/existing.at (_AT_TEST_EXISTING_GRAMMAR): Do not
complicate the code by distinguishing between a missing value
and an empty string value for an optional argument. This fix is
allowed by the similar fix in AT_TEST_TABLES_AND_PARSE below.
* tests/local.at (_AT_TEST_TABLES_AND_PARSE): Merge into...
(AT_TEST_TABLES_AND_PARSE): ... this now that the special
arguments are not needed because of the following changes.
Fix stale comments.
Bison developers should use GNU M4 and should not use
POSIXLY_CORRECT when building the test suite, so do not
complicate the code by avoiding $10 and above.
Do not quote an empty string value for an optional argument, and
do not distinguish between a missing value and an empty string
value.
(cherry picked from commit cba975069a)
Joel E. Denny