NeilBrown [Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:29:16 +0000 (08:29 +1000)]
parsergen: introuce $$NEWINE pseudo-precedence.
Sometimes we need a produce to be terminated by a newline, but we
don't want to consume the newline with a "shift".
Case in point is:
Block -> : StatementList
Which can be used with
Statement -> if Expression Block
StatementList -> Statement
I want this to parse:
if something: if otherthing: action
which might seem a little odd, but is syntactically sensible.
The NEWLINE at the end is requred, and must close both nested Statements.
The NEWLINE will already cause a REDUCE, but if we don't have
Block -> : Statementlist NEWLINE
then something else could force a reduce, and we don't want that.
So introduce a marking "$$NEWLINE" which is similar to imposing a precedence
on a production. Now
Block -> : StatementList $$NEWLINE
means that a NEWLINE is required to end a Block, but it isn't
shifted. If anything else if found here, it is an error.
We also allow $eof and OUT to reduce this production.
NeilBrown [Sun, 9 Jun 2019 23:00:43 +0000 (09:00 +1000)]
parsergen: flip ordering of precedence declarations.
Change so first precedence declaration is the lowest precedence.
This is consistent with bison, and will make converting
'oceani' easer.
When not using precedence, it is easier to do the lowest
precedence first - so keep for approach.
NeilBrown [Sun, 9 Jun 2019 22:49:08 +0000 (08:49 +1000)]
oceani: use 'bracket' printing for expressions.
Adding brackets to expression printing removes and ambiguity.
As I'm about to change expression parsing, I want to be able to
see that the result is correct.
NeilBrown [Sun, 9 Jun 2019 22:35:36 +0000 (08:35 +1000)]
parsergen: include virtual symbols in table of non-terminals
Symbol numbers assigned in grammar_analyse are in three groups:
- predefined (NUMBER, STRING, etc)
- Terminals
- everything else: non-terminals and virtual.
When creating the non_term[] list of names, we need to include
virtual symbols in there, otherwise lookup by symbol-number
might find the wrong value - or might reach beyond end of array.
NeilBrown [Sat, 8 Jun 2019 23:42:05 +0000 (09:42 +1000)]
scanner: improve transition from node to node.
When we are at the end of a node, it is wrong to use do_strip() as
that looks beyond the end of the node.
It is better, once we have determined to accept the newline at the
end of a node (i.e. once no unget is possible), to move to the
start of the next node, and assess column position and indents from
that perspective.
Do this removes some tests on at_son/at_eon, and make some code a
bit more transparent - for example the flag that say whether an "out"
is next now depends on where a newline was recently seen, which makes
more sense than whether we were at the start of a node (out and newline
alternate in some contexts).
Also: add the test which found this problem. This requires a
new set of tests - tests which can scan tokens from multiple nodes.
Now that we are testing node transitions, the coverage has jumped
over 92%
NeilBrown [Sat, 8 Jun 2019 10:18:35 +0000 (20:18 +1000)]
scanner: fix bug with indent at start of node.
If we find an indent, we assume there are delayed newlines
to comsume.
This is often true, but not at the start of a node.
So don't decrement delayed_lines if it is already zero.
NeilBrown [Sat, 8 Jun 2019 04:35:34 +0000 (14:35 +1000)]
scanner: fix handling of indents in sub-nodes
I seem to have confused ->indent_sizes[] and ->col
->col is used for the reported location of a token so
must be the actual column in the file, with no adjustment.
->indent_sizes[] is indents, which must include any inherited from
parent nodes. So this is a completely different value.
So change mdcode to store the local node indent in ->needs_strip -
this is the number of text columns that are stripped off.
This, subtracted from ->indent is the text offset of the physical
start-of-line. Adding the measured ->col then gives us
the indent in the composed file, the indent that must be used
for detecting TK_in and TK_out.
Introduce a new function state_indent() which determines that indent,
and use it instead of ->col.
NeilBrown [Sat, 8 Jun 2019 04:26:15 +0000 (14:26 +1000)]
scanner: fix at_son()
Current test for "at start of node" is broken for 2 reasons.
1/ it doesn't account for the node-indent chars that are stripped
off by do_strip()
2/ it check the ->offset *after* a character has been extracted,
it needs to check the offset from before, which is in ->prev_offset
NeilBrown [Wed, 5 Jun 2019 08:21:18 +0000 (18:21 +1000)]
oceani: redo parsing of blank lines.
I've been puzzling how best to write a grammar to
handle blank lines and option line-breaks well.
The "OptNL" approach didn't work, and "Newlines"
only sometimes works.
I won't try to explain all the logic here, but I do plan to write a
blog post about it soon.
Shift/Reduce conflicts that are likely to be resolved by
a line break are currently hidden. This is probably a good idea,
but sometimes it can be useful to see them anyway.
So report them as "non-critical" conflicts, and don't
count them - so if no other conflicts are found, the
"no conflicts" message is still generated.
NeilBrown [Sun, 2 Jun 2019 06:45:56 +0000 (16:45 +1000)]
parsegen: Add brief explanation about optional newlines.
Optional newlines need care with a parsergen parse and the special
rules around them mean you cannot have a symbol that just absorbs
newlines. Rather, you need to put the newline absorbtion in front of
whatever is allowed to follow newlines.
NeilBrown [Wed, 29 May 2019 11:51:22 +0000 (21:51 +1000)]
scanner: improve number parsing.
In particular, space must be preceeded and followed by a digit
(not a letter).
Also '_' must be preceded and followed by a hex digit, but this
wasn't enforced.
NeilBrown [Wed, 29 May 2019 00:38:39 +0000 (10:38 +1000)]
Separate demos from tests.
'tests' check that the code is working, and fail if the results
aren't what was expected.
'demos' simply run the code and show what it can do. The don't provide
any immediate assurance that it is doing the right thing.
NeilBrown [Sun, 26 May 2019 05:04:43 +0000 (15:04 +1000)]
parsergen - fix newline parsing (again)
Add a test-case to oceani-tests.mdc which fails, but shouldn't.
It fails because expressions are treated as line-like, so newlines
aren't ignored.
I realize that having linelike symbols being those that are followed by
a newline really doesn't work.
So go back to the original idea that "linelike symbols are those which
contain a newline".
Then a state starts a line if it is at the start of a linelike symbol.
This simplifies the code, seems to work correctly for existing tests,
and allows the new test to pass.
NeilBrown [Sat, 18 May 2019 20:46:13 +0000 (06:46 +1000)]
Oceani - Jamison Creek Version
Clean up text and provide new version name.
Additions for this version include:
- type identifiers
- arrays and structs
- global const
- "and then" "or else" "if .. else"
- test suite
- valgrind testing, coverage testing
NeilBrown [Sat, 18 May 2019 13:51:24 +0000 (23:51 +1000)]
oceani: fix merging of conditionally-scoped variables.
The problem here was that the list seen in ->in_scope
includes more than just what is currently in-scope.
It also contains things that have been replaced by new instances
of the name.
These can be detected a they aren't the first variable listed
under their name any more.
NeilBrown [Sat, 18 May 2019 00:11:43 +0000 (10:11 +1000)]
oceani-tests: test code that has been printed
Test that the printed code actually works, as well as being re-printable.
Also simplify the messages so they don't use as much space
and fix a typo "exit1" -> "exit 1"
NeilBrown [Fri, 17 May 2019 13:31:48 +0000 (23:31 +1000)]
scanner: handle missing newline at EOF
If there is no newline at EOF, we can see EOF immediately after
a valid symbol. This can lead to calling close_token() when
state->node is NULL, which crashes.
The code in close_token() only makes sense if state->node is still the
same as token->node. If it isn't, the token must be at the very end of
its code-node, so a different calculation is needed.
NeilBrown [Sat, 11 May 2019 01:41:59 +0000 (11:41 +1000)]
oceani: mark code that doesn't need testing.
Some code is included to check and report impossible
conditions. Failure to exercise this code shouldn't
be seen as a failure of test coverage.
So mark such code as //NOTEST and exclude it
from statistics.
NeilBrown [Fri, 10 May 2019 10:25:01 +0000 (20:25 +1000)]
oceani: fix valgrind-reported errors.
The test suite wasn't running valgrind in a useful way, and wasn't
actually reporting errors.
So fix it to report leaks and unfreed memory, and then fix the
bugs that it finds.
If a NEWLINE is being treated as a grammar symbol which will sometimes
force a reduction, then an apparent SHIFT/REDUCE conflict that could be
resolved to REDUCE by a newline and would default to shift, is expected
and not really a conflict. So don't report those.
NeilBrown [Thu, 9 May 2019 11:13:16 +0000 (21:13 +1000)]
oceani: add conditional expression
[value] if [condition] else [alternate value]
is a conditional expression which will only evaluate and return one of
the two values, depending on the condition.
This has lowest precedence of all expressions.
NeilBrown [Sun, 5 May 2019 01:51:08 +0000 (11:51 +1000)]
mdcode: don't include blank lines at end of section.
completely blank lines (no indent) at the end of a section
should not be considered part of that section, but rather
separation between this and the next section.
So don't include them in the code.
When a section is used, for example, as sample output to
test against actual output in a test suit, having the
stray blank at the end can be problematic.
NeilBrown [Sun, 5 May 2019 01:38:22 +0000 (11:38 +1000)]
mdcode: allow a specific section to be extracted.
Previously, the md2c tool only extracted "File:" sections.
Sometimes we need more control, so allow a second argument
to identify a single section to be extracted. This will
be written to stdout.
NeilBrown [Wed, 1 May 2019 08:22:38 +0000 (18:22 +1000)]
oceani: prepare for adding new types with new syntax.
1/ 'Variable' now returns an 'exec', so other things returning
and 'exec' can be the LHS of an assignment.
2/ provide forward-decls of generic functions so that
new type functions can use them to work with
components of the types.
New linterp_exec() returns an lvalue, (pointer to value)
and individual cases can provide either an lvalue or an rvalue.
This means the RHS of assignment might not be a simple variable,
so we leave the "v = v->merged" part to the "interp exec" for Xvar.
Also, linterp_exec() might return NULL, so be careful.
This might happen, e.g., when an array index is out of bounds.
During parsing and analysis we don't want to "init" a
variable as that can allocate memory - when we add arrays,
we might not know yet how much memory.
So introduce 'prepare' to prepare a value - such that calling
free on it will work - without allocating.
'init' is then called when a variable is declared - unless something
is assigned to it instead.
It was always intended that a type could come between
the : and = of a declaration.
It makes more sense, and simplifies the grammar, if
we stop treating := as ever being a token.
So now : and = are separate tokens.
If the parse sees ":=", it will happily treat that
as two separate tokens, which is what we want.
Rather than a enum listing allowed types, we now
have a 'struct type' which can contain any type.
For now it just has an enum and function pointer
to the existing function, but that can be extended.
It is never used so there isn't much point
storing it. If/When we do use it, we'll
parse it immediately and store the meaning.
And in any case, it should be char[3].
NeilBrown [Mon, 19 Feb 2018 05:58:40 +0000 (16:58 +1100)]
oceani: minimal error tracking.
1/ If the parser hits an error, catch it at eof by having
Program -> ERROR
2/ Allow the presence of and error to be recorded in the context.
3/ If an error occured, don't try to run, and do exit with an error
status.
NeilBrown [Mon, 19 Feb 2018 05:46:04 +0000 (16:46 +1100)]
oceani: Expression etc should be 'exec', not 'binode'.
As a 'var' and a 'val' are possible expressions,
'binode' isn't correct. This is obvious when you
consider that I needed to case $1 for a var or var
before assigning it to $0 for Factor -> Value etc.
So change all these to expect the more generic 'struct exec *'.
Without this change, error handling can try to free a var as though it
was a binode, and get into trouble.
NeilBrown [Mon, 19 Feb 2018 05:40:06 +0000 (16:40 +1100)]
parsergen: enable error handling.
The error handling code currently aborts early because
it was badly broken.
After recent changes it works well enough for experimenting,
so remove the exit(1) and other unnecessary code, and
let's experiment.
NeilBrown [Mon, 19 Feb 2018 05:38:12 +0000 (16:38 +1100)]
parsergen: improve symbol-discard in error handling.
As we don't keep the full look-ahead set, we need to pay a
bit more attention when discarding input symbols, looking
for one we recognize. We need to consider anything
that can be shifted in any state we can reach by simple
shifting.
NeilBrown [Mon, 19 Feb 2018 05:31:14 +0000 (16:31 +1100)]
parsergen: be careful shifting TK_error
shift() behaved a little differently when p.tos == 0,
and if the stack is completely empty, there is little
point trying to shift TK_error as there is no state
to work with.
NeilBrown [Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:32:46 +0000 (15:32 +1100)]
parsergen: remove symbol synthesis option.
This idea never worked, and cannot work as we cannot
magically synthesis the ast node to go with a synthesized
symbol.
If we want to synthesize something on error, we just use
a production like
foo -> ERRROR ${ $0 = a_new_for(); }$
NeilBrown [Sun, 18 Feb 2018 05:10:59 +0000 (16:10 +1100)]
scanner: fix calculation of column.
When we stripe the expected indent from the
start of each line, we need to update 'col'
to correctly account for tabs.
Previous code effectively assumed tabs were 4 spaces.