-*- outline -*-
+* documentation
+Explain $axiom (and maybe change its name: BTYacc names it goal).
+Complete the glossary (item, axiom, ?).
+
+* report documentation
+Extend with error. The hard part will probably be finding the right
+rule so that a single state does not exhibit to many yet undocumented
+``features''. Maybe an empty action ought to be presented too. Shall
+we try to make a single grammar with all these features, or should we
+have several very small grammars?
+
+* documentation
+Some history of Bison and some bibliography would be most welcome.
+Are there any Texinfo standards for bibliography?
+
* Several %unions
I think this is a pleasant (but useless currently) feature, but in the
future, I want a means to %include other bits of grammars, and _then_
char *sval;
}
-* Language independent actions
-
-Currently bison, the generator, transforms $1, $$ and so forth into
-direct C code, manipulating the stacks. This is problematic, because
-(i) it means that if we want more languages, we need to update the
-generator, and (ii), it forces names everywhere (e.g., the C++
-skeleton would be happy to use other naming schemes, and actually,
-even other accessing schemes).
-
-Therefore we want
-
-1. the generator to replace $1, etc. by M4 macro invocations
- (b4_dollar(1), b4_at(3), b4_dollar_dollar) etc.
-
-2. the skeletons to define these macros.
-
-But currently the actions are double-quoted, to protect them from M4
-evaluation. So we need to:
-
-3. stop quoting them
-
-4. change the [ and ] in the actions into @<:@ and @:>@
-
-5. extend the postprocessor to maps these back onto [ and ].
+* --report=conflict-path
+Provide better assistance for understanding the conflicts by providing
+a sample text exhibiting the (LALR) ambiguity.
* Coding system independence
Paul notes:
PDP-10 ports :-) but they should probably be documented
somewhere.
-* Using enums instead of int for tokens.
-Paul suggests:
-
- #ifndef YYTOKENTYPE
- # if defined (__STDC__) || defined (__cplusplus)
- /* Put the tokens into the symbol table, so that GDB and other debuggers
- know about them. */
- enum yytokentype {
- FOO = 256,
- BAR,
- ...
- };
- /* POSIX requires `int' for tokens in interfaces. */
- # define YYTOKENTYPE int
- # endif
- #endif
- #define FOO 256
- #define BAR 257
- ...
-
* Output directory
Akim:
makes it impossible to have modular precedence information. We should
move to partial orders.
-* Parsing grammars
-Rewrite the reader in Bison.
-
-* Problems with aliases
-From: "Baum, Nathan I" <s0009525@chelt.ac.uk>
-Subject: Token Alias Bug
-To: "'bug-bison@gnu.org'" <bug-bison@gnu.org>
-
-I've noticed a bug in bison. Sadly, our eternally wise sysadmins won't let
-us use CVS, so I can't find out if it's been fixed already...
-
-Basically, I made a program (in flex) that went through a .y file looking
-for "..."-tokens, and then outputed a %token
-line for it. For single-character ""-tokens, I reasoned, I could just use
-[%token 'A' "A"]. However, this causes Bison to output a [#define 'A' 65],
-which cppp chokes on, not unreasonably. (And even if cppp didn't choke, I
-obviously wouldn't want (char)'A' to be replaced with (int)65 throughout my
-code.
-
-Bison normally forgoes outputing a #define for a character token. However,
-it always outputs an aliased token -- even if the token is an alias for a
-character token. We don't want that. The problem is in /output.c/, as I
-recall. When it outputs the token definitions, it checks for a character
-token, and then checks for an alias token. If the character token check is
-placed after the alias check, then it works correctly.
-
-Alias tokens seem to be something of a kludge. What about an [%alias "..."]
-command...
+This will be possible with a Bison parser for the grammar, as it will
+make it much easier to extend the grammar.
- %alias T_IF "IF"
-
-Hmm. I can't help thinking... What about a --generate-lex option that
-creates an .l file for the alias tokens used... (Or an option to make a
-gperf file, etc...)
+* Parsing grammars
+Rewrite the reader in Flex/Bison. There will be delicate parts, in
+particular, expect the scanner to be hard to write. Many interesting
+features cannot be implemented without such a new reader.
* Presentation of the report file
From: "Baum, Nathan I" <s0009525@chelt.ac.uk>
conflicts? (Or, perhaps, a "*** This state has N conflicts ***" marker above
each state with conflicts.)
-
* $undefined
From Hans:
- If the Bison generated parser experiences an undefined number in the
a Bison option where every typed default rule is explicitly written out
(same typed ruled can of course be grouped together).
+Note: Robert Anisko handles this. He knows how to do it.
+
+* Documenting C++ output
+Write a first documentation for C++ output.
+
+* Warnings
+It would be nice to have warning support. See how Autoconf handles
+them, it is fairly well described there. It would be very nice to
+implement this in such a way that other programs could use
+lib/warnings.[ch].
+
+Don't work on this without first announcing you do, as I already have
+thought about it, and know many of the components that can be used to
+implement it.
+
* Pre and post actions.
From: Florian Krohm <florian@edamail.fishkill.ibm.com>
Subject: YYACT_EPILOGUE
projects / bison.git / blobdiff