Require the generation of parse-gram.output.

[bison.git] / TODO

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@@ -14,21 +14,11 @@ find something clean (not like YYLSP_NEEDED...).
 
 * Installation
 
-** Disable installation of yacc.
-
-Add an option to 'configure' that allows people to install Bison
-without installing the yacc wrapper script or the rarely-used little
-yacc library required by Posix.  This is for people who prefer some
-other implementation of yacc.
-
 * Documentation
 Before releasing, make sure the documentation ("Understanding your
 parser") refers to the current `output' format.
 
 * lalr1.cc
-** vector
-Move to using vector, drop stack.hh.
-
 ** I18n
 Catch up with yacc.c.
 
@@ -56,6 +46,9 @@ Provide better assistance for understanding the conflicts by providing
 a sample text exhibiting the (LALR) ambiguity.  See the paper from
 DeRemer and Penello: they already provide the algorithm.
 
+** Statically check for potential ambiguities in GLR grammars.  See
+<http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~schmitz/papers.html#expamb> for an approach.
+
 
 * Extensions
 
@@ -151,23 +144,6 @@ Are there any Texinfo standards for bibliography?
 * Java, Fortran, etc.
 
 
-** Java
-
-There are a couple of proposed outputs:
-
-- BYACC/J
-  which is based on Byacc.
-  <http://troi.lincom-asg.com/~rjamison/byacc/>
-
-- Bison Java
-  which is based on Bison.
-  <http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/hack-progs/bison-java.html>
-
-Sebastien Serrurier (serrur_s@epita.fr) is working on this: he is
-expected to contact the authors, design the output, and implement it
-into Bison.
-
-
 * Coding system independence
 Paul notes:
 
@@ -189,20 +165,18 @@ Paul notes:
 Show reductions.
 
 * Broken options ?
-** %no-parser
 ** %token-table
 ** Skeleton strategy
-Must we keep %no-parser?  %token-table?
-
-* src/print_graph.c
-Find the best graph parameters.
+Must we keep %token-table?
 
 * BTYacc
 See if we can integrate backtracking in Bison.  Charles-Henri de
-Boysson <de-boy_c@epita.fr> is working on this, and already has some
-results.  Vadim Maslow, the maintainer of BTYacc was contacted, and we
-stay in touch with him.  Adjusting the Bison grammar parser will be
-needed to support some extra BTYacc features.  This is less urgent.
+Boysson <de-boy_c@epita.fr> has been working on this, but never gave
+the results.
+
+Vadim Maslow, the maintainer of BTYacc was once contacted.  Adjusting
+the Bison grammar parser will be needed to support some extra BTYacc
+features.  This is less urgent.
 
 ** Keeping the conflicted actions
 First, analyze the differences between byacc and btyacc (I'm referring
@@ -217,9 +191,6 @@ very feasible to use the very same conflict tables.
 ** Adjust the skeletons
 Import the skeletons for C and C++.
 
-** Improve the skeletons
-Have them support yysymprint, yydestruct and so forth.
-
 
 * Precedence
 
@@ -228,9 +199,6 @@ It is unfortunate that there is a total order for precedence.  It
 makes it impossible to have modular precedence information.  We should
 move to partial orders (sounds like series/parallel orders to me).
 
-This will be possible with a Bison parser for the grammar, as it will
-make it much easier to extend the grammar.
-
 ** Correlation b/w precedence and associativity
 Also, I fail to understand why we have to assign the same
 associativity to operators with the same precedence.  For instance,
@@ -268,20 +236,6 @@ $<type_name>$ = $<type_name>1. I therefore think that one should implement
 a Bison option where every typed default rule is explicitly written out
 (same typed ruled can of course be grouped together).
 
-Note: Robert Anisko handles this.  He knows how to do it.
-
-
-* Warnings
-It would be nice to have warning support.  See how Autoconf handles
-them, it is fairly well described there.  It would be very nice to
-implement this in such a way that other programs could use
-lib/warnings.[ch].
-
-Don't work on this without first announcing you do, as I already have
-thought about it, and know many of the components that can be used to
-implement it.
-
-
 * Pre and post actions.
 From: Florian Krohm <florian@edamail.fishkill.ibm.com>
 Subject: YYACT_EPILOGUE
@@ -315,22 +269,20 @@ Equip the parser with a means to create the (visual) parse tree.
 
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