+
+## --------- ##
+## Symbols. ##
+## --------- ##
+
+# In order to unify the handling of the various aspects of symbols
+# (tag, type_name, whether terminal, etc.), bison.exe defines one
+# macro per (token, field), where field can has_id, id, etc.: see
+# src/output.c:prepare_symbols_definitions().
+#
+# The various FIELDS are:
+#
+# - has_id: 0 or 1.
+# Whether the symbol has an id.
+# - id: string
+# If has_id, the id. Guaranteed to be usable as a C identifier.
+# - tag: string.
+# A representat of the symbol. Can be 'foo', 'foo.id', '"foo"' etc.
+# - user_number: integer
+# The assigned (external) number as used by yylex.
+# - is_token: 0 or 1
+# Whether this is a terminal symbol.
+# - number: integer
+# The internalized number (used after yytranslate).
+# - has_type: 0, 1
+# Whether has a semantic value.
+# - type
+# If it has a semantic value, its type tag, or, if variant are used,
+# its type.
+# - has_printer: 0, 1
+# - printer: string
+# - printer_file: string
+# - printer_line: integer
+# If the symbol has a printer, everything about it.
+# - has_destructor, destructor, destructor_file, destructor_line
+# Likewise.
+#
+# The following macros provide access to these values.
+
+# b4_symbol_(NUM, FIELD)
+# ----------------------
+# Recover a FIELD about symbol #NUM. Thanks to m4_indir, fails if
+# undefined.
+m4_define([b4_symbol_],
+[m4_indir([b4_symbol($1, $2)])])
+
+
+# b4_symbol(NUM, FIELD)
+# ---------------------
+# Recover a FIELD about symbol #NUM. Thanks to m4_indir, fails if
+# undefined. If FIELD = id, prepend the token prefix.
+m4_define([b4_symbol],
+[m4_case([$2],
+ [id], [m4_do([b4_percent_define_get([api.token.prefix])],
+ [b4_symbol_([$1], [id])])],
+ [b4_symbol_($@)])])
+
+
+# b4_symbol_if(NUM, FIELD, IF-TRUE, IF-FALSE)
+# -------------------------------------------
+# If FIELD about symbol #NUM is 1 expand IF-TRUE, if is 0, expand IF-FALSE.
+# Otherwise an error.
+m4_define([b4_symbol_if],
+[m4_case(b4_symbol([$1], [$2]),
+ [1], [$3],
+ [0], [$4],
+ [m4_fatal([$0: field $2 of $1 is not a Boolean:] b4_symbol([$1], [$2]))])])
+
+
+# b4_symbol_tag_comment(SYMBOL-NUM)
+# ---------------------------------
+# Issue a comment giving the tag of symbol NUM.
+m4_define([b4_symbol_tag_comment],
+[b4_comment([b4_symbol([$1], [tag])])
+])
+
+
+# b4_symbol_action_location(SYMBOL-NUM, KIND)
+# -------------------------------------------
+# Report the location of the KIND action as FILE:LINE.
+m4_define([b4_symbol_action_location],
+[b4_symbol([$1], [$2_file]):b4_syncline([b4_symbol([$1], [$2_line])])])
+
+
+# b4_symbol_action(SYMBOL-NUM, KIND)
+# ----------------------------------
+# Run the action KIND (destructor or printer) for SYMBOL-NUM.
+# Same as in C, but using references instead of pointers.
+m4_define([b4_symbol_action],
+[b4_symbol_if([$1], [has_$2],
+[b4_dollar_pushdef([(*yyvaluep)],
+ b4_symbol_if([$1], [has_type],
+ [m4_dquote(b4_symbol([$1], [type]))]),
+ [(*yylocationp)])dnl
+ b4_symbol_case_([$1])[]dnl
+b4_syncline([b4_symbol([$1], [$2_line])], ["b4_symbol([$1], [$2_file])"])
+ b4_symbol([$1], [$2])
+b4_syncline([@oline@], [@ofile@])
+ break;
+
+b4_dollar_popdef[]dnl
+])])
+
+
+# b4_symbol_destructor(SYMBOL-NUM)
+# b4_symbol_printer(SYMBOL-NUM)
+# --------------------------------
+m4_define([b4_symbol_destructor], [b4_symbol_action([$1], [destructor])])
+m4_define([b4_symbol_printer], [b4_symbol_action([$1], [printer])])
+
+
+# b4_symbol_case_(SYMBOL-NUM)
+# ---------------------------
+# Issue a "case NUM" for SYMBOL-NUM.
+m4_define([b4_symbol_case_],
+[case b4_symbol([$1], [number]): b4_symbol_tag_comment([$1])])
+])