Clean up recent patches a little.

[bison.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
 -*- outline -*-
 
 * Short term
 -*- outline -*-
 
 * Short term

-** Document %define assert
+** Use b4_symbol in all the skeleton
+Then remove the older system, including the tables generated by
+output.c
+
+** Update the documentation on gnu.org
+
+** Get rid of fake #lines [Bison: ...]
+Possibly as simple as checking whether the column number is nonnegative.
+
+I have seen messages like the following from GCC.
+
+<built-in>:0: fatal error: opening dependency file .deps/libltdl/argz.Tpo: No such file or directory
+

 
 ** Discuss about %printer/%destroy in the case of C++.
 It would be very nice to provide the symbol classes with an operator<<
 
 ** Discuss about %printer/%destroy in the case of C++.
 It would be very nice to provide the symbol classes with an operator<<


@@ -42,6 +54,22 @@ number for the error token, which POSIX wants to be 256, but which
 Bison might renumber if the user used number 256.  Keep fix and doc?
 Throw away?
 
 Bison might renumber if the user used number 256.  Keep fix and doc?
 Throw away?
 

+Also, why don't we output the token name of the error token in the
+output?  It is explicitly skipped:
+
+      /* Skip error token and tokens without identifier.  */
+      if (sym != errtoken && id)
+
+Of course there are issues with name spaces, but if we disable we have
+something which seems to be more simpler and more consistent instead
+of the special case YYERRCODE.
+
+   enum yytokentype {
+     error = 256,
+     // ...
+   };
+
+

 We could (should?) also treat the case of the undef_token, which is
 numbered 257 for yylex, and 2 internal.  Both appear for instance in
 toknum:
 We could (should?) also treat the case of the undef_token, which is
 numbered 257 for yylex, and 2 internal.  Both appear for instance in
 toknum:


@@ -143,12 +171,8 @@ management is performed once instead of three times).  I suggest that
 we do the same in yacc.c.
 
 ** yysyntax_error
 we do the same in yacc.c.
 
 ** yysyntax_error

-In lalr1.cc we invoke it with the translated lookahead (yytoken), and
-yacc.c uses yychar.  I don't see why.
-
-** yysyntax_error
-The use of switch to select yyfmt in lalr1.cc seems simpler than
-what's done in yacc.c.
+The code bw glr.c and yacc.c is really alike, we can certainly factor
+some parts.

 
 * Header guards
 
 
 * Header guards
 


@@ -282,7 +306,8 @@ this issue.  Does anybody have it?
 Some history of Bison and some bibliography would be most welcome.
 Are there any Texinfo standards for bibliography?
 
 Some history of Bison and some bibliography would be most welcome.
 Are there any Texinfo standards for bibliography?
 

-
+** %printer
+Wow, %printer is not documented.  Clearly mark YYPRINT as obsolete.

 
 * Java, Fortran, etc.
 
 
 * Java, Fortran, etc.