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[bison.git] / TODO

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 * Short term
-** scan-code.l
-Avoid variables for format strings, as then GCC cannot check them.
-show_sub_messages should call show_sub_message.
+** Graphviz display code thoughts
+The code for the --graph option is over two files: print_graph, and
+graphviz. I believe this is because Bison used to also produce VCG graphs,
+but since this is no longer true, maybe we could consider these files for
+fusion.
+
+Little effort factoring seems to have been given to factoring in these files,
+and their print-xml and print counterpart. We would very much like to re-use
+the pretty format of states from .output in the .dot
+
+Also, the underscore in print_graph.[ch] isn't very fitting considering
+the dashes in the other filenames.
+
+** push-parser
+Check it too when checking the different kinds of parsers.  And be
+sure to check that the initial-action is performed once per parsing.
 
 ** m4 names
 b4_shared_declarations is no longer what it is.  Make it
 b4_parser_declaration for instance.
 
-** Variable names.
-What should we name `variant' and `lex_symbol'?
+** yychar in lalr1.cc
+There is a large difference bw maint and master on the handling of
+yychar (which was removed in lalr1.cc).  See what needs to be
+back-ported.
+
+
+    /* User semantic actions sometimes alter yychar, and that requires
+       that yytoken be updated with the new translation.  We take the
+       approach of translating immediately before every use of yytoken.
+       One alternative is translating here after every semantic action,
+       but that translation would be missed if the semantic action
+       invokes YYABORT, YYACCEPT, or YYERROR immediately after altering
+       yychar.  In the case of YYABORT or YYACCEPT, an incorrect
+       destructor might then be invoked immediately.  In the case of
+       YYERROR, subsequent parser actions might lead to an incorrect
+       destructor call or verbose syntax error message before the
+       lookahead is translated.  */
+
+    /* Make sure we have latest lookahead translation.  See comments at
+       user semantic actions for why this is necessary.  */
+    yytoken = yytranslate_ (yychar);
+
+
+** stack.hh
+Get rid of it.  The original idea is nice, but actually it makes
+the code harder to follow, and uselessly different from the other
+skeletons.
 
 ** Get rid of fake #lines [Bison: ...]
 Possibly as simple as checking whether the column number is nonnegative.
@@ -36,9 +74,6 @@ since it is no longer bound to a particular parser, it's just a
 ** Rename LR0.cc
 as lr0.cc, why upper case?
 
-** bench several bisons.
-Enhance bench.pl with %b to run different bisons.
-
 * Various
 ** YYERRCODE
 Defined to 256, but not used, not documented.  Probably the token
@@ -102,12 +137,6 @@ really possible?  The test suite does not exercise this case.
 This shows that it would be interesting to manage to install skeleton
 coverage analysis to the test suite.
 
-** Table definitions
-It should be very easy to factor the definition of the various tables,
-including the separation bw declaration and definition.  See for
-instance b4_table_define in lalr1.cc.  This way, we could even factor
-C vs. C++ definitions.
-
 * From lalr1.cc to yacc.c
 ** Single stack
 Merging the three stacks in lalr1.cc simplified the code, prompted for
@@ -233,9 +262,6 @@ Paul notes:
         tokens, either via escapes (e.g., "x\0y") or via a NUL byte in
         the source code.  This should get fixed.
 
-* --graph
-Show reductions.
-
 * Broken options ?
 ** %token-table
 ** Skeleton strategy
@@ -332,7 +358,7 @@ End:
 
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+Copyright (C) 2001-2004, 2006, 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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