* README: Mention m4 1.4.3. Remove obsolete advice about

[bison.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 168b4e03c6302c9352fd6fd02961ef9a1fdfb710..be43580eb9492b019eea27c54d7c2a3c0fa28ea5 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Currently, the GLR parser cannot compile with a C++ compiler.
 
 **  GLR
 How would Paul like to display the conflicted actions?  In particular,
-what when two reductions are possible on a given lookahead, but one is
+what when two reductions are possible on a given look-ahead token, but one is
 part of $default.  Should we make the two reductions explicit, or just
 keep $default?  See the following point.
 
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ we should be able to have:
 
 Or something like this.
 
-
 ** yysymprint interface
 It should be improved, in particular when using Bison features such as
 locations, and YYPARSE_PARAMS.  For the time being, it is almost
@@ -118,6 +117,20 @@ to avoid falling into another CPP mistake.
 ** -D, --define-muscle NAME=VALUE
 To define muscles via cli.  Or maybe support directly NAME=VALUE?
 
+** XML Output
+There are couple of available extensions of Bison targeting some XML
+output.  Some day we should consider including them.  One issue is
+that they seem to be quite orthogonal to the parsing technique, and
+seem to depend mostly on the possibility to have some code triggered
+for each reduction.  As a matter of fact, such hooks could also be
+used to generate the yydebug traces.  Some generic scheme probably
+exists in there.
+
+XML output for GNU Bison and gcc
+   http://www.cs.may.ie/~jpower/Research/bisonXML/
+
+XML output for GNU Bison
+   http://yaxx.sourceforge.net/
 
 * Unit rules
 Maybe we could expand unit rules, i.e., transform
@@ -179,7 +192,9 @@ Paul notes:
        PDP-10 ports :-) but they should probably be documented
        somewhere.
 
-
+       More importantly, Bison does not currently allow NUL bytes in
+       tokens, either via escapes (e.g., "x\0y") or via a NUL byte in
+       the source code.  This should get fixed.
 
 * --graph
 Show reductions.       []
@@ -324,7 +339,7 @@ the parser with a means to create the (visual) parse tree.
 
 -----
 
-Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU Bison.
 
@@ -340,5 +355,5 @@ GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with Bison; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.