X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/35fe08345edf43644a80a5987a50937c67e7c937..14594e38ada5b5aa89d513ea8ae658996862f7c8:/TODO?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index ca610cc0..49928d09 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -14,13 +14,6 @@ find something clean (not like YYLSP_NEEDED...). * Installation -** Disable installation of yacc. - -Add an option to 'configure' that allows people to install Bison -without installing the yacc wrapper script or the rarely-used little -yacc library required by Posix. This is for people who prefer some -other implementation of yacc. - * Documentation Before releasing, make sure the documentation ("Understanding your parser") refers to the current `output' format. @@ -29,9 +22,6 @@ parser") refers to the current `output' format. ** vector Move to using vector, drop stack.hh. -** I18n -Catch up with yacc.c. - * Report ** GLR @@ -56,6 +46,9 @@ Provide better assistance for understanding the conflicts by providing a sample text exhibiting the (LALR) ambiguity. See the paper from DeRemer and Penello: they already provide the algorithm. +** Statically check for potential ambiguities in GLR grammars. See + for an approach. + * Extensions @@ -151,23 +144,6 @@ Are there any Texinfo standards for bibliography? * Java, Fortran, etc. -** Java - -There are a couple of proposed outputs: - -- BYACC/J - which is based on Byacc. - - -- Bison Java - which is based on Bison. - - -Sebastien Serrurier (serrur_s@epita.fr) is working on this: he is -expected to contact the authors, design the output, and implement it -into Bison. - - * Coding system independence Paul notes: @@ -189,10 +165,9 @@ Paul notes: Show reductions. * Broken options ? -** %no-parser ** %token-table ** Skeleton strategy -Must we keep %no-parser? %token-table? +Must we keep %token-table? * src/print_graph.c Find the best graph parameters. @@ -228,9 +203,6 @@ It is unfortunate that there is a total order for precedence. It makes it impossible to have modular precedence information. We should move to partial orders (sounds like series/parallel orders to me). -This will be possible with a Bison parser for the grammar, as it will -make it much easier to extend the grammar. - ** Correlation b/w precedence and associativity Also, I fail to understand why we have to assign the same associativity to operators with the same precedence. For instance, @@ -315,22 +287,19 @@ Equip the parser with a means to create the (visual) parse tree. ----- -Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, -Inc. +Copyright (C) 2001-2004, 2006, 2008-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler. -Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) -any later version. +the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. -Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with Bison; see the file COPYING. If not, write to -the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, -Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. +along with this program. If not, see .