Paul Hilfinger b34b12c4f9 allow %expect and %expect-rr modifiers on individual rules ...

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."

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