X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/575619af5e1f61a5f78fb3910bee424ead5fe5a6..219139f52178b3e020be1952c59b1ba76009c386:/TODO diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index f3bcf19d..addd135d 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ what it should look like. For instance what follows crashes. The code in yyerrlab reads: if (yychar <= YYEOF) - { - /* Return failure if at end of input. */ - if (yychar == YYEOF) - YYABORT; - } + { + /* 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 @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Note that there remains the problem of locations: `@r'? We should find a means to provide an access to values deep in the stack. For instance, instead of - baz: qux { $$ = $-1 + $0 + $1; } + baz: qux { $$ = $-1 + $0 + $1; } we should be able to have: @@ -313,13 +313,13 @@ XML output for GNU Bison * Unit rules Maybe we could expand unit rules, i.e., transform - exp: arith | bool; - arith: exp '+' exp; - bool: exp '&' exp; + exp: arith | bool; + arith: exp '+' exp; + bool: exp '&' exp; into - exp: exp '+' exp | exp '&' exp; + exp: exp '+' exp | exp '&' exp; when there are no actions. This can significantly speed up some grammars. I can't find the papers. In particular the book `LR @@ -344,19 +344,19 @@ Wow, %printer is not documented. Clearly mark YYPRINT as obsolete. * Coding system independence Paul notes: - Currently Bison assumes 8-bit bytes (i.e. that UCHAR_MAX is - 255). It also assumes that the 8-bit character encoding is - the same for the invocation of 'bison' as it is for the - invocation of 'cc', but this is not necessarily true when - people run bison on an ASCII host and then use cc on an EBCDIC - host. I don't think these topics are worth our time - addressing (unless we find a gung-ho volunteer for EBCDIC or - PDP-10 ports :-) but they should probably be documented - somewhere. + Currently Bison assumes 8-bit bytes (i.e. that UCHAR_MAX is + 255). It also assumes that the 8-bit character encoding is + the same for the invocation of 'bison' as it is for the + invocation of 'cc', but this is not necessarily true when + people run bison on an ASCII host and then use cc on an EBCDIC + host. I don't think these topics are worth our time + addressing (unless we find a gung-ho volunteer for EBCDIC or + 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. + 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. @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Here's a proposal for how a new implementation might look: ----- -Copyright (C) 2001-2004, 2006, 2008-2011 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.