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15 A System for Syntax Directed Programming<BR> |
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16 Version 2.40<BR> |
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18 Copyright © 1993-2002 Parsifal Software<BR> |
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19 Copyright © 2006, 2007 David A. Holland<BR> |
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20 All Rights Reserved. |
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23 <H1>What's New</H1> |
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26 <LI><A HREF=#ag240>AnaGram 2.40</A></LI> |
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27 <LI><A HREF=#ag201>AnaGram 2.01</A></LI> |
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31 <A NAME="ag240"></A> |
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32 <H2>AnaGram 2.40</H2> |
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35 <LI><A HREF="#240oss">Open source</A></LI> |
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37 <LI><A HREF="#240functionality">Improved functionality</A></LI> |
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38 <LI><A HREF="#240convenience">Increased convenience</A></LI> |
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39 <LI><A HREF="#240fixes">Bug fixes</A></LI> |
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43 <P> |
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44 Most of the changes in AnaGram 2.40 are under the hood - cleanup of |
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45 source files, reorganization of the source tree, revision of build and |
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46 test procedures, and so forth, in preparation for the open source |
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47 release. All of this will, with luck, be invisible to the end user. |
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50 <A NAME="240oss"></A> |
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51 <H2>Open Source</H2> |
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53 AnaGram is now <A HREF=license.html>open source</A>. AnaGram itself |
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54 uses the 4-clause BSD license; the parsing engine, and thus the output |
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55 files, are licensed with the less restrictive zlib license. Source |
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56 distributions are available from |
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57 <A HREF=http://www.parsifalsoft.com>http://www.parsifalsoft.com</A>. |
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60 <P> |
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61 The manual has been re-typeset using LaTeX instead of WordPerfect. |
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62 The typographic consistency and formatting has been considerably |
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63 improved; unfortunately, the pagination is now completely different, |
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64 so page numbers are not portable to the new version. |
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68 All the logic dealing with registration, trial copies, serial numbers, |
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69 and so forth has been removed. |
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75 The Unix build of the command-line version of AnaGram (agcl) is now |
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76 supported and available to the public. There is at present no GUI for |
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77 the Unix version. The long-term goal is to migrate the AnaGram GUI |
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78 away from the closed (and orphaned) IBM Visual Age class library to |
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79 something else, probably GTK, so as to support both Windows and Unix. |
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83 <H2>Improved Functionality</H2> |
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85 <B>Examples.</B> The examples have been adjusted to the current |
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86 dialect of C++ and are now compilable again. The legacy "classlib" |
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87 code some still depend on is being phased out. |
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91 <H2>Increased Convenience</H2> |
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93 <B>File names.</B> File names in the AnaGram distribution and source |
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94 tree are no longer limited to 8+3 characters, and quite a few now have |
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95 less cryptic names. Additionally, all HTML files are now named ".html", |
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100 <B>Installed files.</B> The <TT>AnaGram.cgb</TT> and |
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109 <B>Engine compiler error.</B> The <TT>error_message</TT> field of |
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117 output header file at once used to cause some compilers to issue a |
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118 warning, because an <TT>#ifndef</TT> directive was checking the wrong |
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124 code if you tried to use the <I>wrapper</I> feature and error token |
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129 <B>More than 256 keywords.</B> Build 8 of AnaGram 2.01 fixed certain |
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130 problems with large keyword tables, but in the process introduced |
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131 another, which is now fixed. |
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138 <H2>AnaGram 2.01</H2> |
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143 <LI><A HREF="#201defaults">Changed defaults</A></LI> |
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151 <B>Improved support for building thread safe parsers.</B> All |
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152 nonconstant parser data previously declared as static variables has been |
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154 is set, all references to the parser control block are passed to functions |
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155 via calling sequences. The <I>extend pcb</I> switch provides a mechanism to |
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156 add user-defined variables to the parser control block. |
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157 <P> |
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158 <B>Improved support for C++ parsers.</B> The <I>wrapper</I> statement |
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159 provides C++ wrapper classes for objects to be stored on the parser value stack. |
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160 The <I>PCB_TYPE</I> macro allows you to derive a C++ class from the parser control |
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161 block and to access its members from your reduction procedures. |
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162 <P> |
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163 <B>Support for the ISO-Latin-1 character set</B>. When |
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164 the <I>case sensitive</I> switch is off and the <I>iso latin 1</I> switch |
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165 is on, case conversion is performed for all ISO Latin 1 |
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166 characters, not just those in the ASCII range. |
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167 <P> |
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168 <B>Improved support for error diagnostics.</B> It is now possible for users |
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169 to provide their own text for the error messages created by the <I>diagnose |
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170 errors</I> switch. In addition, the <I>token names</I> table option now |
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174 |
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176 <B>More precise determination of error context.</B> The tables used by the |
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177 error frame option to provide the context of a syntax error have been |
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178 reworked and now provide a substantially more precise localization of the |
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179 error. |
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180 <P> |
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181 <BR> |
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183 <H2><A NAME="201diagnostics">Improved Error Diagnostics</A></H2> |
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185 <B>Missing reduction procedure diagnostic.</B> |
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186 In addition to warning that there is a parameter assignment |
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187 without a reduction procedure, this |
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188 diagnostic is now provided if the default reduction value |
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189 does not have the same data type as the reduction token. |
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190 <P> |
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191 <B>Command line version.</B> Diagnostics have been reformatted so |
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192 they can be recognized by the Microsoft Visual C++ IDE. |
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193 |
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195 <B>Refined keyword anomaly diagnostics.</B> There should |
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196 now be fewer false alarms. |
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197 <P> |
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198 <H2><A NAME="201convenience">Increased Convenience</A></H2> |
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200 <B>File Trace.</B> If your grammar uses semantically determined productions, |
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201 the File Trace feature will now remember the choices you have |
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202 made for reduction tokens, so that you do not have to make |
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203 the same choices over and over again as you work with an example. |
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204 <P> |
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205 <B>File paths</B>. The file paths in the #line directives created by the line numbers |
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206 switch now use forward slashes instead of backslashes. |
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208 <H2><A NAME="201defaults">Changed Defaults</A></H2> |
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209 |
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210 <B>Parser stack alignment.</B> Now defaults to long instead of int. |
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211 <P> |
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212 <B>Parser stack size.</B> Now defaults to 128 instead of 32. |
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214 <H2><A NAME="201fixes">Bug Fixes</A></H2> |
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216 <B>Interaction between context tracking and error token. </B>In previous |
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217 versions of AnaGram, if the first token in a rule was the error token, |
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218 the value of CONTEXT was the value that corresponded to the location |
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219 of the error. CONTEXT now correctly shows the context at which the |
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220 aborted rule began. For instance, in the following example, if a |
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221 syntax error is encountered while parsing the expression, the error |
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222 rule will skip over remaining characters to the terminating semicolon. |
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223 When invoked from handleError(), the CONTEXT macro will return the |
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224 context as it was at the beginning of the expression. |
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226 expression statement |
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227 -> expression, ';' |
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228 -> error, ~(eof + ';')?..., ';' =handleError(); |
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229 </PRE> |
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230 <B>Distinguish lexemes.</B> Several minor bugs in the implementation of <I>distinguish lexemes</I> have been |
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231 corrected. |
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232 <P> |
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233 <B>Set partition logic.</B> Corrected problems in the interaction between the set partition logic |
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234 and the implementation of the <I>disregard</I> statement. |
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235 <P> |
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236 <B>Table size.</B> Fixed a data sizing problem which occurred when one particular parse table |
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239 <B>Keyword recognition.</B> Fixed a problem that could cause difficulties with keyword |
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240 recognition when the <I>case sensitive</I> switch was turned off. |
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242 <B>Default conflict resolution.</B> With unresolved shift-reduce conflicts, the shift case was |
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245 <B>Lockup.</B> It was possible to write an erroneous grammar that would cause |
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246 AnaGram to lock up. This problem has been corrected. |
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248 <B>Potential bus error.</B> The error diagnostic funtion created by the <I>diagnose errors</I> |
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249 switch, could, under some circumstances, access an uninitialized value |
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250 on the parser value stack. This problem has been corrected. |
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252 <B>Internal errors.</B> Fixed a number of minor bugs which could cause internal errors |
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