X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/d8988b2fffa93194e297001d7488593c9ac47afa..7da99edea76d6148c776214a71bc09dacfc0cb7b:/doc/bison.texinfo diff --git a/doc/bison.texinfo b/doc/bison.texinfo index 5b930a45..9f769460 100644 --- a/doc/bison.texinfo +++ b/doc/bison.texinfo @@ -855,11 +855,12 @@ The declarations section (@pxref{Prologue, , The prologue}) contains two preprocessor directives. The @code{#define} directive defines the macro @code{YYSTYPE}, thus -specifying the C data type for semantic values of both tokens and groupings -(@pxref{Value Type, ,Data Types of Semantic Values}). The Bison parser will use whatever type -@code{YYSTYPE} is defined as; if you don't define it, @code{int} is the -default. Because we specify @code{double}, each token and each expression -has an associated value, which is a floating point number. +specifying the C data type for semantic values of both tokens and +groupings (@pxref{Value Type, ,Data Types of Semantic Values}). The +Bison parser will use whatever type @code{YYSTYPE} is defined as; if you +don't define it, @code{int} is the default. Because we specify +@code{double}, each token and each expression has an associated value, +which is a floating point number. The @code{#include} directive is used to declare the exponentiation function @code{pow}. @@ -1066,10 +1067,11 @@ token type is an identifier, that identifier is defined by Bison as a C macro whose definition is the appropriate number. In this example, therefore, @code{NUM} becomes a macro for @code{yylex} to use. -The semantic value of the token (if it has one) is stored into the global -variable @code{yylval}, which is where the Bison parser will look for it. -(The C data type of @code{yylval} is @code{YYSTYPE}, which was defined -at the beginning of the grammar; @pxref{Rpcalc Decls, ,Declarations for @code{rpcalc}}.) +The semantic value of the token (if it has one) is stored into the +global variable @code{yylval}, which is where the Bison parser will look +for it. (The C data type of @code{yylval} is @code{YYSTYPE}, which was +defined at the beginning of the grammar; @pxref{Rpcalc Decls, +,Declarations for @code{rpcalc}}.) A token type code of zero is returned if the end-of-file is encountered. (Bison recognizes any nonpositive value as indicating the end of the @@ -2375,7 +2377,8 @@ the numbers associated with @var{x} and @var{y}. In a simple program it may be sufficient to use the same data type for the semantic values of all language constructs. This was true in the -RPN and infix calculator examples (@pxref{RPN Calc, ,Reverse Polish Notation Calculator}). +RPN and infix calculator examples (@pxref{RPN Calc, ,Reverse Polish +Notation Calculator}). Bison's default is to use type @code{int} for all semantic values. To specify some other type, define @code{YYSTYPE} as a macro, like this: @@ -3068,11 +3071,11 @@ terminal symbol. All kinds of token declarations allow @findex %expect Bison normally warns if there are any conflicts in the grammar -(@pxref{Shift/Reduce, ,Shift/Reduce Conflicts}), but most real grammars have harmless shift/reduce -conflicts which are resolved in a predictable way and would be difficult to -eliminate. It is desirable to suppress the warning about these conflicts -unless the number of conflicts changes. You can do this with the -@code{%expect} declaration. +(@pxref{Shift/Reduce, ,Shift/Reduce Conflicts}), but most real grammars +have harmless shift/reduce conflicts which are resolved in a predictable +way and would be difficult to eliminate. It is desirable to suppress +the warning about these conflicts unless the number of conflicts +changes. You can do this with the @code{%expect} declaration. The declaration looks like this: @@ -3080,10 +3083,11 @@ The declaration looks like this: %expect @var{n} @end example -Here @var{n} is a decimal integer. The declaration says there should be no -warning if there are @var{n} shift/reduce conflicts and no reduce/reduce -conflicts. The usual warning is given if there are either more or fewer -conflicts, or if there are any reduce/reduce conflicts. +Here @var{n} is a decimal integer. The declaration says there should be +no warning if there are @var{n} shift/reduce conflicts and no +reduce/reduce conflicts. An error, instead of the usual warning, is +given if there are either more or fewer conflicts, or if there are any +reduce/reduce conflicts. In general, using @code{%expect} involves these steps: