+
+## ------------------------ ##
+## Bad character literals. ##
+## ------------------------ ##
+
+# Bison used to accept character literals that were empty or contained
+# too many characters.
+
+# FIXME: AT_DATA or some variant of AT_DATA may eventually permit
+# the final newline to be omitted. See the threads starting at
+# <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-07/msg00019.html>.
+
+AT_SETUP([[Bad character literals]])
+
+AT_DATA([empty.y],
+[[%%
+start: '';
+start: '
+]])
+AT_CHECK([[perl -e "print 'start: \'';" >> empty.y || exit 77]])
+
+AT_BISON_CHECK([empty.y], [1], [],
+[[empty.y:2.8-9: warning: empty character literal
+empty.y:3.8-4.0: warning: empty character literal
+empty.y:3.8-4.0: missing `'' at end of line
+empty.y:4.8: warning: empty character literal
+empty.y:4.8: missing `'' at end of file
+]])
+
+AT_DATA([two.y],
+[[%%
+start: 'ab';
+start: 'ab
+]])
+AT_CHECK([[perl -e "print 'start: \'ab';" >> two.y || exit 77]])
+
+AT_BISON_CHECK([two.y], [1], [],
+[[two.y:2.8-11: warning: extra characters in character literal
+two.y:3.8-4.0: warning: extra characters in character literal
+two.y:3.8-4.0: missing `'' at end of line
+two.y:4.8-10: warning: extra characters in character literal
+two.y:4.8-10: missing `'' at end of file
+]])
+
+AT_DATA([three.y],
+[[%%
+start: 'abc';
+start: 'abc
+]])
+AT_CHECK([[perl -e "print 'start: \'abc';" >> three.y || exit 77]])
+
+AT_BISON_CHECK([three.y], [1], [],
+[[three.y:2.8-12: warning: extra characters in character literal
+three.y:3.8-4.0: warning: extra characters in character literal
+three.y:3.8-4.0: missing `'' at end of line
+three.y:4.8-11: warning: extra characters in character literal
+three.y:4.8-11: missing `'' at end of file
+]])
+
+AT_CLEANUP
+
+## ------------------------- ##
+## Bad escapes in literals. ##
+## ------------------------- ##
+
+AT_SETUP([[Bad escapes in literals]])
+
+AT_DATA([input.y],
+[[%%
+start: '\777' '\0' '\xfff' '\x0'
+ '\uffff' '\u0000' '\Uffffffff' '\U00000000'
+ '\ ' '\A';
+]])
+
+# It is not easy to create special characters, we cannot even trust tr.
+# Beside we cannot even expect "echo '\0'" to output two characters
+# (well three with \n): at least Bash 3.2 converts the two-character
+# sequence "\0" into a single NUL character.
+AT_CHECK([[perl -e 'print "start: \"\\\t\\\f\\\0\\\1\" ;";' >> input.y \
+ || exit 77]])
+
+AT_BISON_CHECK([input.y], [1], [],
+[[input.y:2.9-12: invalid number after \-escape: 777
+input.y:2.8-13: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:2.16-17: invalid number after \-escape: 0
+input.y:2.15-18: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:2.21-25: invalid number after \-escape: xfff
+input.y:2.20-26: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:2.29-31: invalid number after \-escape: x0
+input.y:2.28-32: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:3.9-14: invalid number after \-escape: uffff
+input.y:3.8-15: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:3.18-23: invalid number after \-escape: u0000
+input.y:3.17-24: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:3.27-36: invalid number after \-escape: Uffffffff
+input.y:3.26-37: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:3.40-49: invalid number after \-escape: U00000000
+input.y:3.39-50: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:4.9-10: invalid character after \-escape: ` '
+input.y:4.8-11: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:4.14-15: invalid character after \-escape: A
+input.y:4.13-16: warning: empty character literal
+input.y:5.9-16: invalid character after \-escape: \t
+input.y:5.17: invalid character after \-escape: \f
+input.y:5.18: invalid character after \-escape: \0
+input.y:5.19: invalid character after \-escape: \001
+]])
+
+AT_CLEANUP
+
+## ------------------------- ##
+## LAC: Errors for %define. ##
+## ------------------------- ##
+
+AT_SETUP([[LAC: Errors for %define]])
+
+AT_DATA([[input.y]],
+[[%%
+start: ;
+]])
+
+# parse.lac.* options are useless if LAC isn't actually activated.
+AT_BISON_CHECK([[-Dparse.lac.es-capacity-initial=1 input.y]],
+ [[1]], [],
+[[<command line>:2: %define variable `parse.lac.es-capacity-initial' is not used
+]])
+AT_BISON_CHECK([[-Dparse.lac.memory-trace=full input.y]],
+ [[1]], [],
+[[<command line>:2: %define variable `parse.lac.memory-trace' is not used
+]])
+
+AT_CLEANUP