X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/3c146b5e6fcdf5226c5966c3f8544a995d47427c..8f0d265e9d88ae555be0af9fdb1bfc8f307533ee:/TODO diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index ad99639d..376ec1d7 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,98 +1,202 @@ -*- outline -*- -* Header guards +* Short term +** Use b4_symbol in all the skeleton +Then remove the older system, including the tables generated by +output.c -En rentrant chez moi, je relance un `make' sur un projet que j'ai avancé -ailleurs durant la semaine. Le système que j'utilise ici est un peu plus -à jour que l'autre, et le Bison est probablement plus récent itou. Ici, -c'est la version 1.33. J'obtiens, en montrant un peu plus que nécessaire: - -----------------------------------------------------------------------> -cd ~/fpub/pyrexpp/Pyrexpp/ -LANGUAGE= /usr/bin/make MAKEFLAGS='-k -j2' -/usr/bin/make -C .. install -make[1]: Entre dans le répertoire `/bpi/titan/home/pinard/fpub/pyrexpp' -install -g bpi -m 2775 -d Prépare-titan -chmod g+sw Prépare-titan -touch Prépare-titan/.estampille -/usr/bin/gcc -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.2 -IPrépare-titan -g -c -o Prépare-titan/ctools.o ctools.c -bison -d -o Prépare-titan/c-parser.c c-parser.y -/usr/bin/gcc -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.2 -IPrépare-titan -g -c -o Prépare-titan/c-parser.o Prépare-titan/c-parser.c -flex -t c-scanner.l | grep -v '^#line' > Prépare-titan/c-scanner.c -/usr/bin/gcc -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.2 -IPrépare-titan -g -c -o Prépare-titan/c-scanner.o Prépare-titan/c-scanner.c -In file included from Prépare-titan/c-scanner.c:547: -Prépare-titan/c-parser.h:1: warning: garbage at end of `#ifndef' argument -Prépare-titan/c-parser.h:2: warning: missing white space after `#define BISON_PR' -/usr/bin/gcc -o Prépare-titan/ctools.so Prépare-titan/ctools.o Prépare-titan/c-scanner.o -shared -lm -python setup.py --quiet build -install -g bpi -m 664 Prépare-titan/ctools.so /bpi/titan/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Pyrexpp -python setup.py --quiet install -make[1]: Quitte le répertoire `/bpi/titan/home/pinard/fpub/pyrexpp' -[...] -----------------------------------------------------------------------< - -Diagnostics que je n'avais sûrement pas, plus tôt en journée, sur l'autre -système. En allant voir, je trouve: - -----------------------------------------------------------------------> -#ifndef BISON_PRÉPARE_TITAN_C_PARSER_H -# define BISON_PRÉPARE_TITAN_C_PARSER_H - -# ifndef YYSTYPE -# define YYSTYPE int -# endif -# define IDENTIFIER 257 -[...] - -extern YYSTYPE yylval; - -#endif /* not BISON_PRÉPARE_TITAN_C_PARSER_H */ -----------------------------------------------------------------------< - -Le pré-processeur de C n'est pas à l'aise avec les caractères accentués -dans les identificateurs. - -Bon, de mon expérience, il n'a jamais été nécessaire de protéger un fichier -`.h' de Bison ou Yacc contre de multiples inclusions, mais si ça été -fait, je présume qu'il y avait un problème réel et convaincant à régler, -et qu'il ne s'agit pas d'une simple fantaisie: je ne mettrai donc pas -ça en doute. Mais le choix du nom de l'identificateur laisse à désirer, -tu en conviendras :-). Et faut-il vraiment y inclure le répertoire? - - -* URGENT: Documenting C++ output -Write a first documentation for C++ output. +** Update the documentation on gnu.org +** Get rid of fake #lines [Bison: ...] +Possibly as simple as checking whether the column number is nonnegative. -* Documentation -Before releasing, make sure the documentation refers to the current -`output' format. +I have seen messages like the following from GCC. + +: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<< +and a destructor. Unfortunately the syntax we have chosen for +%destroy and %printer make them hard to reuse. For instance, the user +is invited to write something like + + %printer { debug_stream() << $$; } ; + +which is hard to reuse elsewhere since it wants to use +"debug_stream()" to find the stream to use. The same applies to +%destroy: we told the user she could use the members of the Parser +class in the printers/destructors, which is not good for an operator<< +since it is no longer bound to a particular parser, it's just a +(standalone symbol). + +** Rename LR0.cc +as lr0.cc, why upper case? + +** bench several bisons. +Enhance bench.pl with %b to run different bisons. + +** Use b4_symbol everywhere. +Move its definition in the more standard places and deploy it in other +skeletons. + +* Various +** YYPRINT +glr.c inherits its symbol_print function from c.m4, which supports +YYPRINT. But to use YYPRINT yytoknum is needed, which not defined by +glr.c. + +Anyway, IMHO YYPRINT is obsolete and should be restricted to yacc.c. + +** 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 +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: + + const unsigned short int + parser::yytoken_number_[] = + { + 0, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, + +while here + + enum yytokentype { + TOK_EOF = 0, + TOK_EQ = 258, + +so both 256 and 257 are "mysterious". + + const char* + const parser::yytname_[] = + { + "\"end of command\"", "error", "$undefined", "\"=\"", "\"break\"", + + +** YYFAIL +It is seems to be *really* obsolete now, shall we remove it? + +** YYBACKUP +There is no test about it, no examples in the doc, and I'm not sure +what it should look like. For instance what follows crashes. + + %error-verbose + %debug + %pure-parser + %code { + # include + # include + # include + + static void yyerror (const char *msg); + static int yylex (YYSTYPE *yylval); + } + %% + exp: + 'a' { printf ("a: %d\n", $1); } + | 'b' { YYBACKUP('a', 123); } + ; + %% + static int + yylex (YYSTYPE *yylval) + { + static char const input[] = "b"; + static size_t toknum; + assert (toknum < sizeof input); + *yylval = (toknum + 1) * 10; + return input[toknum++]; + } + + static void + yyerror (const char *msg) + { + fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", msg); + } + + int + main (void) + { + yydebug = !!getenv("YYDEBUG"); + return yyparse (); + } + +** yychar == yyempty_ +The code in yyerrlab reads: + + if (yychar <= YYEOF) + { + /* Return failure if at end of input. */ + if (yychar == YYEOF) + YYABORT; + } + +There are only two yychar that can be <= YYEOF: YYEMPTY and YYEOF. +But I can't produce the situation where yychar is YYEMPTY here, is it +really possible? The test suite does not exercise this case. + +This shows that it would be interesting to manage to install skeleton +coverage analysis to the test suite. +** Table definitions +It should be very easy to factor the definition of the various tables, +including the separation bw declaration and definition. See for +instance b4_table_define in lalr1.cc. This way, we could even factor +C vs. C++ definitions. -* Error messages -Some are really funky. For instance +* From lalr1.cc to yacc.c +** Single stack +Merging the three stacks in lalr1.cc simplified the code, prompted for +other improvements and also made it faster (probably because memory +management is performed once instead of three times). I suggest that +we do the same in yacc.c. - type clash (`%s' `%s') on default action +** yysyntax_error +The code bw glr.c and yacc.c is really alike, we can certainly factor +some parts. + +* Header guards + +From Franc,ois: should we keep the directory part in the CPP guard? -is really weird. Revisit them all. +* Yacc.c: CPP Macros -* read_pipe.c -This is not portable to DOS for instance. Implement a more portable -scheme. Sources of inspiration include GNU diff, and Free Recode. +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...). -* value_components_used -Was defined but not used: where was it coming from? It can't be to -check if %union is used, since the user is free to $n on her -union, doesn't she? +* Installation +* Documentation +Before releasing, make sure the documentation ("Understanding your +parser") refers to the current `output' format. * Report ** GLR How would Paul like to display the conflicted actions? In particular, -what when two reductions are possible on a given lookahead, but one is +what when two reductions are possible on a given lookahead token, but one is part of $default. Should we make the two reductions explicit, or just keep $default? See the following point. @@ -112,34 +216,70 @@ 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 -** yyerror, yysymprint interface -It should be improved, in particular when using Bison features such as -locations, and YYPARSE_PARAMS. For the time being, it is recommended -to #define yyerror and yyprint to steal internal variables... +** Labeling the symbols +Have a look at the Lemon parser generator: instead of $1, $2 etc. they +can name the values. This is much more pleasant. For instance: -** 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_ -it will be important for the various bits to define their needs in -%union. + exp (res): exp (a) '+' exp (b) { $res = $a + $b; }; -When implementing multiple-%union support, bare the following in mind: +I love this. I have been bitten too often by the removal of the +symbol, and forgetting to shift all the $n to $n-1. If you are +unlucky, it compiles... -- when --yacc, this must be flagged as an error. Don't make it fatal - though. +But instead of using $a etc., we can use regular variables. And +instead of using (), I propose to use `:' (again). Paul suggests +supporting `->' in addition to `:' to separate LHS and RHS. In other +words: -- The #line must now appear *inside* the definition of yystype. - Something like + r:exp -> a:exp '+' b:exp { r = a + b; }; - { - #line 12 "foo.y" - int ival; - #line 23 "foo.y" - char *sval; - } +That requires an significant improvement of the grammar parser. Using +GLR would be nice. It also requires that Bison know the type of the +symbols (which will be useful for %include anyway). So we have some +time before... + +Note that there remains the problem of locations: `@r'? + + +** $-1 +We should find a means to provide an access to values deep in the +stack. For instance, instead of + + baz: qux { $$ = $-1 + $0 + $1; } + +we should be able to have: + + foo($foo) bar($bar) baz($bar): qux($qux) { $baz = $foo + $bar + $qux; } + +Or something like this. + +** %if and the like +It should be possible to have %if/%else/%endif. The implementation is +not clear: should it be lexical or syntactic. Vadim Maslow thinks it +must be in the scanner: we must not parse what is in a switched off +part of %if. Akim Demaille thinks it should be in the parser, so as +to avoid falling into another CPP mistake. + +** XML Output +There are couple of available extensions of Bison targeting some XML +output. Some day we should consider including them. One issue is +that they seem to be quite orthogonal to the parsing technique, and +seem to depend mostly on the possibility to have some code triggered +for each reduction. As a matter of fact, such hooks could also be +used to generate the yydebug traces. Some generic scheme probably +exists in there. + +XML output for GNU Bison and gcc + http://www.cs.may.ie/~jpower/Research/bisonXML/ + +XML output for GNU Bison + http://yaxx.sourceforge.net/ * Unit rules Maybe we could expand unit rules, i.e., transform @@ -166,16 +306,11 @@ this issue. Does anybody have it? 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. - Add support for languages other than C and C++. Here is a proposed - patch for Java: - - - - * Coding system independence Paul notes: @@ -190,49 +325,26 @@ Paul notes: PDP-10 ports :-) but they should probably be documented somewhere. - + More importantly, Bison does not currently allow NUL bytes in + tokens, either via escapes (e.g., "x\0y") or via a NUL byte in + the source code. This should get fixed. * --graph -Show reductions. [] +Show reductions. * Broken options ? -** %no-lines [ok] -** %no-parser [] -** %pure-parser [] -** %token-table [] -** Options which could use parse_dquoted_param (). -Maybe transferred in lex.c. -*** %skeleton [ok] -*** %output [] -*** %file-prefix [] -*** %name-prefix [] - -** Skeleton strategy. [] -Must we keep %no-parser? - %token-table? -*** New skeletons. [] - -* src/print_graph.c -Find the best graph parameters. [] - -* doc/bison.texinfo -** Update -informations about ERROR_VERBOSE. [] -** Add explanations about -skeleton muscles. [] -%skeleton. [] - -* testsuite -** tests/pure-parser.at [] -New tests. - -* input synclines -Some users create their foo.y files, and equip them with #line. Bison -should recognize these, and preserve them. +** %token-table +** Skeleton strategy +Must we keep %token-table? * BTYacc -See if we can integrate backtracking in Bison. Contact the BTYacc -maintainers. +See if we can integrate backtracking in Bison. Charles-Henri de +Boysson 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 @@ -247,9 +359,6 @@ very feasible to use the very same conflict tables. ** Adjust the skeletons Import the skeletons for C and C++. -** Improve the skeletons -Have them support yysymprint, yydestruct and so forth. - * Precedence @@ -258,18 +367,6 @@ 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, -why can't I decide that the precedence of * and / is the same, but the -latter is nonassoc? - -If there is really no profound motivation, we should find a new syntax -to allow specifying this. - ** RR conflicts See if we can use precedence between rules to solve RR conflicts. See what POSIX says. @@ -298,20 +395,6 @@ $$ = $1. I therefore think that one should implement 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. - - -* 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 Subject: YYACT_EPILOGUE @@ -340,27 +423,25 @@ at the proper place to bison.simple. Ditto for YYACT_PROLOGUE. I was wondering what you think about adding YYACT_PROLOGUE/EPILOGUE to bison. If you're interested, I'll work on a patch. -* Move to Graphviz -Well, VCG seems really dead. Move to Graphviz instead. 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