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authorFrançois Pottier <francois.pottier@inria.fr>2015-10-23 13:34:43 +0200
committerFrançois Pottier <francois.pottier@inria.fr>2015-10-23 13:40:40 +0200
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Install the new system for reporting syntax errors.
This requires the development version of Menhir, to be released soon. In summary: handcrafted.messages is new. It contains a mapping of erroneous sentences to error messages, together with a lot of comments. Makefile.extr is new. It contains a rule to generate cparser/pre_parser_messages.ml based on this mapping. cparser/ErrorReports.{ml,mli} are new. They construct syntax error messages, based on the compiled mapping. cparser/Lexer.mll is modified. The last two tokens that have been read are stored in a buffer. ErrorReports is called to construct a syntax error message. cparser/GNUmakefile is new. It offers several commands for working on the pre-parser. cparser/deLexer.ml is new. It is a script (it is not linked into CompCert). It translates the symbolic name of a token to an example of this token in concrete C syntax. It is used by [make -C cparser concrete] to produce the .c files in tests/generated/. cparser/tests/generated/Makefile is new. It runs ccomp, clang and gcc on each of the generated C files, so as to allow a comparison of the error messages.
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+(* This module is in charge of reporting a syntax error after the pre_parser
+ has failed. *)
+
+open Pre_parser.MenhirInterpreter
+
+(* The parser keeps track of the last two tokens in a two-place buffer. *)
+
+type 'a buffer =
+| Zero
+| One of 'a
+| Two of 'a * (* most recent: *) 'a
+
+(* [push buffer x] pushes [x] into [buffer], causing the buffer to slide. *)
+
+val update: 'a buffer -> 'a -> 'a buffer
+
+(* [report text buffer checkpoint] constructs an error message. The C source
+ code must be stored in the string [text]. The start and end positions of the
+ last two tokens that were read must be stored in [buffer]. The parser state
+ (i.e., the automaton's state and stack) must be recorded in the checkpoint
+ [checkpoint]. *)
+
+val report:
+ string ->
+ (Lexing.position * Lexing.position) buffer ->
+ _ checkpoint ->
+ string
+