* Short term
+** 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.
+
+** 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);
+
+
+** $ and others in epilogue
+A stray $ is a warning in the actions, but an error in the epilogue.
+IMHO, it should not even be a warning in the epilogue.
+
+** 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.
+
** Variable names.
What should we name `variant' and `lex_symbol'?
-** Use b4_symbol in all the skeleton
-Move its definition in the more standard places and deploy it in other
-skeletons. 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.
Enhance bench.pl with %b to run different bisons.
* Various
-** Warnings
-Warnings about type tags that are used in printer and dtors, but not
-for symbols?
-
** YYERRCODE
Defined to 256, but not used, not documented. Probably the token
number for the error token, which POSIX wants to be 256, but which
"\"end of command\"", "error", "$undefined", "\"=\"", "\"break\"",
-** YYFAIL
-It is seems to be *really* obsolete now, shall we remove it?
-
** yychar == yyempty_
The code in yyerrlab reads:
The code bw glr.c and yacc.c is really alike, we can certainly factor
some parts.
-* Header guards
-
-From François: should we keep the directory part in the CPP guard?
-
-
-* Yacc.c: CPP Macros
-
-Do some people use YYPURE, YYLSP_NEEDED like we do in the test suite?
-They should not: it is not documented. But if they need to, let's
-find something clean (not like YYLSP_NEEDED...).
-
-
-* Documentation
-Before releasing, make sure the documentation ("Understanding your
-parser") refers to the current `output' format.
* Report
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.
-
-
* Coding system independence
Paul notes:
** Skeleton strategy
Must we keep %token-table?
-* BTYacc
-See if we can integrate backtracking in Bison. Charles-Henri de
-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
-to the executables). Find where the conflicts are preserved.
-
-** Compare with the GLR tables
-See how isomorphic the way BTYacc and the way the GLR adjustments in
-Bison are compatible. *As much as possible* one should try to use the
-same implementation in the Bison executables. I insist: it should be
-very feasible to use the very same conflict tables.
-
-** Adjust the skeletons
-Import the skeletons for C and C++.
-
-
* Precedence
** Partial order
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