Re: [PATCH] Change the handling of the symbols in the skeletons.

[Paolo Bonzini]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> Le 12 août 08 à 21:48, Akim Demaille a écrit :
> 
>> Before we were using tables which lines were the symbols and which
>> columns were things like number, tag, type-name etc.  It is was
>> difficult to extend: each time a column was added, all the numbers had
>> to be updated (you asked for colon $2, not for "tag").  Also, it was
>> hard to filter these tables when only a subset of the symbols (say the
>> tokens, or the nterms, or the tokens that have and external number
>> *and* a type-name) was of interest.
>>
>> Now instead of monolithic tables, we define one macro per cell.  For
>> instance "b4_symbol(0, tag)" is a macro name which contents is
>> self-decriptive.  The macro "b4_symbol" provides easier access to
>> these cells.
>>
>>     * src/output.c (type_names_output): Remove.
>>     (symbol_numbers_output, symbol_definitions_output): New.
>>     (muscles_output): Call them.
>>     (prepare_symbols): Define b4_symbols_number.
> 
> This change should be propagated to the other skeletons as well, so that
> we keep a single access to the symbol components.

Would be easier if you had a changelog entry for lalr1.cc too ;-)

Paolo