Reported by Hans Åberg.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bison/2019-02/msg00064.html
* src/files.c (spec_graph_file): Use `*.gv` when 3.4 or better,
otherwise `*.dot`.
* src/parse-gram.y (handle_require): Pretend we are already 3.4.
* doc/bison.texi: Adjust.
* tests/local.at, tests/output.at: Exercise this.
Currently, we have errors:
./doc/bison.texi:13005: node `History' lacks menu item for `Yacc' despite being its Up target
* doc/bison.texi (History): Add the local menu.
While at it, add a few index entries.
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.
Akim Demaille
Eric S. Raymond
Paul Hilfinger
Jannick
Adam Sampson