Trialing contexts are currently broken (overlapping trailing contexts
cannot be tracked with a single 'YYCTXMARKER'). For now, re2c with
'--skeleton' mimics this incorrect behaviour: information about context
is lost by the time DFA is constructed, so skeleton has no way to
figure out the right order of things.
Prior to this commit backup of trailing context position was done
before advancing input position and re2c either had to emit
YYCTXMARKER = YYCURSOR + 1;
(with default input API), or
YYRESTORECTX ();
YYSKIP ();
(with custom input API).
The problem is that sometimes initial state doesn't sdvance input position
at all. Now re2c emits context backup after advancing input position and it
no longer needs '+1' or 'YYSKIP' hacks. It always backups the correct position.
'-r' is different from normal mode in two aspects:
- single DFA may be used multiple times (unchanged, we only
need a single copy for skeleton)
- DFA may be generated but not used at all
The changes should be backwards compatible (meaning that old code that
compiled should still compile), but it may add empty statements or statements
with no effect for some configurations, e.g.:
YYSETCONDTITION(0);(0);
These changes were necessary to unify re2c behaviour, remove counter-intuitive
cases and make it possible to write comprehensible option descriptions.
In short, the changes are:
- 'naked' triggers generation of argument-in-braces and semicolon;
- 'parameter' triggers generation of argument-in-braces (when applicable,
'naked' has priority over 'parameter');
- argument templates ('@cond', '@state', '@len') don't force other
configurations, they also don't influence on argument-in-braces;
Handle all inplace configurations in a uniform way.
This commit removes check (and error) for overwritten configurations
(like setting 're2c:define:YYCYRSOR' twice in the same block).
This check was in principle useful, but it was applied to somehow
randomly chosen set of parameters. If in future we'll feel a need
for such check, it should respect all options equally and report
warning rather than error.
Omit usseless 'yyaccept' variable in '--skeleton' programs.
Normally re2c generates single 'yyaccept' variable for all conditions.
With '--skeleton' re2c handles conditions separately, so each condition
needs (or needs not) its own 'yyaccept'.
Prior to this commit re2c used the same criterion to determine if
'yyaccept' is needed with '--skeleton' as it uses generally: whether
'yyaccept' was used in any of conditions. Now re2c looks if 'yyaccept'
was used with this particular condition.
Changed '-Wcondition-order' to warn even if 'YYSETCONDITION' is used.
Tests 'condtype_yysetcondition.c{s,g}.re' show the reason why I changed
how '-Wcondition-order' works in presence of 'YYSETCONDITION' calls:
programs generated from these tests work differently depending on
condition numbering. Explicit use of condition names cannot guarantee
that these explicit names were generated by re2c (and not hardcoded as
in these examples).
Determine maximal path length and maximal rule number while constructing
skeleton; take maximim of these two values; choose unsigned integer type
of minimal width capable of holding maximim.
Note: re2c operates on exact-width integers, but the generated program
doesn't (it might not have <stdint.h>). When generating the program,
re2c choses one of unsigned 'char', 'short', 'int' and 'long' types
(that one 'sizeof' which is equal to the disired key size). re2c makes
some implicit assumptions (generated program is run on the same platform
as re2c, byte consists of 8 bits, etc.). Perhaps re2c should hardcode
these assumptions in the generated program and check them on start.
A single key is formed of three values:
1. the length of string
2. the length of matched part of string
3. the number of matched rule
All these values are guaranteed to fit 32 bits, so for now we just
dump them as 'uint32_t' and read as 'unsigned int'. re2c asserts that
'sizeof (uint32_t) == sizeof (unsigned int)'.
Estimate maximal path length in skeleton and abort if it overflows.
Maximal skeleton path length is a bit different from YYMAXFILL:
it assumes that loops are iterated once (unlike YYMAXFILL calculation,
which disregards loops) and returns zero for empty regexp.
We need to know it in order:
- to be sure it won't overflow
- to store keys in a compact form (yet to be done)
This commit also makes DFA and skeleton store condition name and
source file line corresponding to current condition: it gets quite
annoying to pass these things around. This change caused another
change of test results (line numbers in error messages changed
for tests that use '-r' and reuse old DFA (don't reconstruct DFA
in 'use:re2c' blocks).
This let us create skeletom right after DFA creation (but befor DFA
has been mangled in different ways), but call skeleton methods any time.
Undefined control flow is now checked at the time of real code generation,
that's why all those tests that use '-r' changed: re2c stopped reporting
'rules:re2c' blocks and reports 'use:re2c' blocks instead.
Reduced the time of path generation with '--skeleton'.
The algorithm now stores partially constructed paths in a compact
form and delays expansion until it reaches the end of current
branch of recursion. This has several advantages:
- no need to store large structures in memory
- write data to file in large chunks
- path expansion is faster than step-by-step construction
Speedup is actually tenfold (but the way keys are dumped to file is
still not optimized and spoils benchmarks). Real speedup can be
observed on such files as:
test/php20150211_zend_ini_scanner_trimmed.icF.re
, which cause ~5Gb dumps. Time has gone down: 8.5m -> 2.5m and will
be furter reduced to ~1m when key dumps are fixed. This will result
in generation speed ~20Mb/s which is quite good.
Fixed eternal loop in path cover generation algorithm for '--skeleton'.
The simplest example I was able to come up with that reveals eternal
loop is the following:
/*!re2c
( [^acf] | "0b" | "a"[^] | "a0"[^] )+ {}
*/
The problem was caused by my assumption that from any node there is
at least one non-looping path to end node. The assumption is true;
what I didn't take into account was that all such paths may go via
nodes that have already occured twice on the way to current node
(their loop counter is greater than 1). In this case the algorithm
would find no path to end node. Since not all prefixes would have
been covered (exactly none of them) the algorithm would loop forever.
Such branch may be abandoned safely: the algorithm will later find
another path to current state without loops.
As soon as I realized the problem the fix was trivial: if all outgoing
arcs have been exhausted and none of them yielded any results, abandon
current branch.
With '--skeleton', store input data in binary form (rather than C/C++ code).
There's a limitation on the size of input files for C/C++ compiler and
the compiled binary will have to contain all that data (and thus may grow
very large).
Storing data in binary form and reading it from file dynamically is
the way it should be.
Changed '.keys' file format (generated with '--skeleton').
Store length of strings instead of pointers to string start and end.
Storing pointers requires us to remember total length of strings already
written to file by the time we want to write next string. This is very
inconvenient if we want to dump strings as we perform DFS on graph:
we'll have to track size all the time (path-cover-generator already does
that, but all-paths-generator doesn't).
This adds a new local variable to the generated code ('token'), which
is used to backup cursor position when enterind DFA.
Split ".data" files (generated with '--skeleton') into two parts.
This is necessary to dump generated data as soon as possible instead
of keeping it until all data has been generated: we generate input
strings and keys simultaneously, but have to write all input strings
at once as one big string. Keys alone occupy lots of space, so
keeping only keys instead of keys and strings won't help.
Combined path cover generation with path cover size estimation.
We don't have any fallback algorithm in case path cover is too large.
We want to generate some paths anyway, so we have to construct path cover.
We shouldn't generate arbitrary large amounts of data.
Omit some highly unlikely conditional exits from deep-first search.
With '--skeleton' re2c builds DFA skeleton and performs DFS in order to
estimate the size of data to be generated. It maintains size counter: as
soon as the counter reaches certain limit, DFS should stop.
Size counter is always checked when recursion returns.
Sometimes it is clear that size counter will overflow upon recursion
return (when arguments overflow already) and DFS can exit early (before
entering recursion).
This commit omits checks of some arguments (and correponding early exits
from DFS): first, path length is very unlikely to overflow (one has to
write/generate a regular expression with length of ~1Gb, in which case
skeleton generation won't be the worst problem); second, the number of
outgoing arcs in each vertex is also highly unlikely to exceed 1Gb limit.
Renamed and fixed warning about undefined control flow in generated lexer.
Renamed '-Wnaked-default' to '-Wundefined-control-flow': the latter sounds
much scarier. :D
Completely changed the algorithm that is used to determine if default case
is not handled properly. Prior to this commit a simple and incorrent criterion
was used: whether there are code units that (alone) do not match any rule.
This gived false positives in cases like this:
[^] [^] { rule }
here all code units meet the criterion: no single code unit matches a rule.
But obviously, default case is handled properly, because any input string
matches 'rule' (strictly speaking, any input string of length 2 or more, but
that's YYFILL's problem).
The new algorithm is more complex (in terms of time and space), yet it is
less heuristic: re2c parforms exhaustive deep-first-search on graph skeleton
and collects all bad paths.
Ulya Trofimovich [Fri, 28 Aug 2015 22:15:40 +0000 (23:15 +0100)]
No need to NULL-terminate array of known size.
For some reason (which I yet do not understand) re2c uses size of DFA
state's "kernel" to determine whether a new state should be constructed
or some already constructed state (of the same "kernel" size) will do.
Since re2c knows "kernel" size for each state anyway, there's no need
to NULL-terminate "kernel" array while iterating over it: we can use
pre-calculated size instead.
Ulya Trofimovich [Fri, 28 Aug 2015 22:00:56 +0000 (23:00 +0100)]
Simplified array bounds check.
Comparing against pointer to the end of array is easier than calculating
array length, then setting next-to-last element to NULL and iterating
while not NULL.
Ulya Trofimovich [Thu, 27 Aug 2015 22:30:03 +0000 (23:30 +0100)]
Don't mix up empty code block with nonexistent one in rule actions.
Turns out that re2c allows empty code blocks:
/*!re2c
<a> "a" :=
*/
re2c up to 0.14.3 handled this correctly (generated empty action).
Since then this behaviour has been broken: re2c started to autogenerate
jump to nonexistent condition.
Ulya Trofimovich [Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:41:48 +0000 (12:41 +0100)]
Simplified tracking of condition order.
In theory re2c makes no guarantee about the order of conditions in
the generated lexer. Users should use 'YYGETCONDITION'/'YYSETCONDITION'
interface and generate enum with condition names using either '-t'
option or '/*!types:re2c*/' directive. Only members of the generated
enum should be used with 'YYGETCONDITION' and 'YYSETCONDITION'.
This way code is independent of internal re2c condition numbering.
However, it turns out that some users (and notably, PHP) rely on
internal condition numbering: they manually hardcode condition numbers
and make re2c generate condition dispatch in such a way that it
doesn't mention condition names at all (e.g. with in the form of nested
'if' statements with '-b' or in the form of 'goto' table with '-g').
The code compiles, but change of code generation mode may break
compilation. Even worse, change of internal re2c condition numbering
may lead to epic runtime failures.
So re2c cannot just change internal condition numbering: it has to
preserve the existing numbering scheme (rather illogical and not
alphabetically sorted).
This commit tries to simplify tracking of condition numbers.
Ulya Trofimovich [Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:33:29 +0000 (11:33 +0100)]
Fixed bug #119: "-f with -b/-g generates incorrect dispatch on fill labels".
Consider the following example 1.re:
/*!re2c
"" {}
*/
With -if, re2c would generate correct dispatch:
$ re2c -if 1.re
/* Generated by re2c 0.14.3 on Tue Aug 25 10:41:45 2015 */
switch (YYGETSTATE()) {
default: goto yy0;
case 0: goto yyFillLabel0;
}
yy0:
YYSETSTATE(0);
yyFillLabel0:
{}
With -bif all positive YYGETSTATE() values will lead to yyFillLabel0,
which is clearly an error: values that are greater than 0 should lead
to yy0:
$ re2c -bif 1.re
/* Generated by re2c 0.14.3 on Tue Aug 25 10:40:32 2015 */
if (YYGETSTATE() < 0) {
goto yy0;
} else {
goto yyFillLabel0;
}
yy0:
YYSETSTATE(0);
yyFillLabel0:
{}
With -gif the error is different: all values greater than 0 now cause
undefined behaviour (access to memory not within array bounds):
$ re2c -gif 1.re
/* Generated by re2c 0.14.3 on Tue Aug 25 10:47:41 2015 */
{
static void *yystable[] = {
&&yyFillLabel0,
};
if (YYGETSTATE() < 0) {
goto yy0;
}
goto *yystable[YYGETSTATE()];
yy0:
YYSETSTATE(0);
yyFillLabel0:
{}
}
The situation gets even more tricky with re2c:state:abort configuration.
Besides, YYGETSTATE() macro is called multiple times with -b and -g,
which is not so good. Additional checks with -g don't help gain performance
either.
Before that commit bootstrap parser was updated every time when autogenerated
parser was updated. This approach contradicted with 'make distcheck' which
mounts top source directory read-only (including bootstrap files). That commit
tried to solve the problem by checking if the autogenerated parser has changed
and only then copying it to bootstrap parser.
I made two mistakes:
- philisophic mistake: autogenerated parser was actually altered by
'make distcheck' because of altered paths in '#line' info;
- shell scripting mistake: the check if the autogenerated parser has
changed was inverted, so bootstrap parser was never updated;
This commit makes use of two observations:
- bootstrap parser depends on the source parser, not on the autogenerated
parser;
- bootstrap parser shouldn't at all contain line information: at the time
it is copied to build directory the relative path from build directory
to source directory may be completely different (as it is with 'make
distcheck');
Ulya Trofimovich [Sat, 22 Aug 2015 14:52:27 +0000 (15:52 +0100)]
Tests: simple tests for parsing inplace configurations.
Tests do not ensure that configurations are handled correctly or
have any impact on re2c behaviour. They only ensure that these
configuration names are recognized as valid.
Ulya Trofimovich [Sat, 22 Aug 2015 13:49:17 +0000 (14:49 +0100)]
Parse inplace configuration names in lexer.
Make re2c do all the dirty work instead of barely recognizing
configuration-like lexeme and manually matching the lexeme against
all allowed configuration names.
This commit adds many new tokens, which means that re2c-generated lexer
and bison-generated parser have both become larger. The difference
is not as great as one might expect: ~60 Kb -> ~80 Kb in both cases.
Ulya Trofimovich [Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:24:42 +0000 (13:24 +0100)]
Zero-extend code units when casing them from 'signed char' to 'uint32_t'.
The problem starts with lexer: it should operate on unsigned chars
(as re2c wants). Then these casts won't be needed at all. Mixing
signed and unsigned chars is bad and lexer should be rewritten to
use unsigned chars.
Ulya Trofimovich [Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:05:07 +0000 (13:05 +0100)]
Forbid newline in strings and character classes.
Like C language, re2c allows all characters of current charset excapt for
newline and backslash to apper unescaped in string and class literals.
Added tests:
- all possible characters in strings and classes (omitting
newline, escaping backslash and quotes/closing bracket)
with different encodings (re2c up to 0.14.x would segfault
on this test with '-u' and '-w')
- string with newline
- string with unescaped backslash followed by newline (so that
it won't stick to next character)
Ulya Trofimovich [Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:09:52 +0000 (12:09 +0100)]
Check if code point exceeds maximum. Correctly cast 'char' to 'uint32_t'.
First fix:
re2c used to check if code point exceeds maximal value for current
encoding when parsing it. When I moved parsing code points to lexer
I forgot the check.
Second fix:
I assumed that 'static_cast<uint32_t>' on 'signed char' zero-extends.
But I was wrong: it sign-extends. Need to cast to 'unsigned char'
instead.
Ulya Trofimovich [Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:49:28 +0000 (18:49 +0100)]
Parse unquoted flex-like strings in lexer.
Such strings can only contain ASCII letters, digits and uderscore:
no escapes. So there's very little parsing to do: just map code units
directly to code points.
Ulya Trofimovich [Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:31:04 +0000 (18:31 +0100)]
Parse character strings in lexer.
This commit is a continuation of e42f271e4b284cd6ed590dc06a5239ce13942fc5:
"Parse character classes in lexer." It makes lexer parse individual code
points instead of barely recognizing string of code points.
Since the contents of case sensitive strings, case insensitive strings
and character classes are lexically the same (except for escaped quotes
or closing bracket), we can parse them all in the same lexer block.
Note that re2c allows any 1-byte code points. Maybe we should report
non-ASCII or non-printables.
Ulya Trofimovich [Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:54:22 +0000 (15:54 +0100)]
Parse character classes in lexer.
Before this commit, lexer would barely recognize class as a whole
lexeme and pass it to functions that would further parse is by manually
picking individual code points and control characters out of the lexeme.
Heh, re2c is made for such kind of stuff (and it does it much better).
So now lexer parses individual code points or control characters and
stores them as a sequence of code points. Then an outer function
splits this sequence into ranges and individual characters.
I tried to preserve existing behaviour (judging from test suite only
the text of some error messages has changed). Added some autogenerated
tests (and the generator script itself), but these tests are not exhaustive.
Ulya Trofimovich [Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:57:29 +0000 (20:57 +0100)]
Lexer: no need to have "{0,}" special case.
Now "{0,}" is handled by general case for counted repetition. Had to
fix test because of swapped alternatives in construction of regexps
of the form "r*" and "r{n,".
Ulya Trofimovich [Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:02:04 +0000 (20:02 +0100)]
Force definition of some conditionally defined parts of <stdint.h>.
Got some errors about undefined 'UINT32_MAX' and others while trying
to build re2c with MINGW. These variables are defined conditionally in
<stdint.h> depending on the following defines:
__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS
Fix: defined these symbols in the beginning of "src/util/c99_stdint.h".
Also found out that "src/util/c99_stdint.h" didn't compile in the
absense of system <stdint.h> (which is exactly the case when it was
written for). THe problem was caused by incorrect use of 'typedef'
statement; fixed easily. What a shame I didn't compile it before ;D
Ulya Trofimovich [Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:08:21 +0000 (12:08 +0100)]
Use custom function instead of 'atoi' to read 32-bit integers.
Using 'atoi' displeased me for several reasons:
- 'atoi' doesn't check for overflow
- by the time 'atoi' was called, re2c has already parsed input
string and knows that it is well-formed, no need to do it twice
- atoi returns 'int', custom function allows to refine types and
avoid casts between signed/unsigned values or [-Wsign-conversion]
warnings
Ulya Trofimovich [Sat, 15 Aug 2015 16:42:41 +0000 (17:42 +0100)]
Don't use special regexp type for counted repetitions.
Counted repetitions are regexps of the form:
r{n}
r{n,m}
r{n,}
They can be expressed in terms of concatenation, alternation and
iteration:
r{0} <empty regexp>
r{n} r{n-1} r
r{n,m} r{n} (r{0} | ... | r{m-n})
r{n,} r{n} r*
Reducing special regexp type to represent counted repetitions allows
us substitute complex code that compiles them to bytecode instructions
with simpler code that constructs counted repetitions using concatenation,
alternation and iteration.
Ulya Trofimovich [Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:57:58 +0000 (13:57 +0100)]
Lexer: unified token length calculation.
Token length equals the difference between two pointers: YYCURSOR
value on the moment of successful match and YYCURSOR value when
entering DFA. This difference should be nonnegative and fit buffer
size.