Recompile nagaqueen + rock with the latest peg instead of greg

[nddrylliog]

Ian Piumarta, Giulio Paci and myself have been discussing lately the opportunity to merge greg (_why's fork that I forked) with Ian's original peg/leg implementation.

Ian added the few missing features (re-entrancy, error reporting) that were added to greg. As a result, I believe we can make nagaqueen/rock work with their peg/leg now.

Ian's version can be checked out via SVN, here: http://piumarta.com/svn2/peg/trunk/

(Ping @duckinator @showstopper @Shamanas @fredreichbier for the discussion).

[duckinator]

Well if it'll work, then why not? That means one less thing that's specific to ooc/rock!

[showstopper]

I agree, if it isn't too hard to switch nor any tremendous (negative) side effects are introduced, let's give it a shot o/

[alexnask]

I'll try to make it work today or tomorrow.

[nddrylliog]

@Shamanas news? :)

[alexnask]

@nddrylliog There seems to be some trouble with error reporting (leg can't parse the grammar when it uses ~{...} constructs) so I removed those and tried recompiling but there still was some error with the "core" variable... I don't really have the time to fix those yet, I'm in the middle of my exams now but in a couple of week I should have some time :)

[nddrylliog]

Yes, the error handling mechanism implemented by Ian is different than what we have in greg. According to him however, it should be a strict superset of what we used to have (and the implementation is cleaner!). He has updated the docs here: http://piumarta.com/svn2/peg/trunk/src/peg.1 (you might want to rebuild that to get a proper HTML page)

[alexnask]

@nddrylliog Ok I'll check it out sometime :)

[giuliopaci]

Recently I migrated a project (kiwi) from leg (0.1.7) to greg. Now I am testing it with leg (svn version).
I am able to compile it using leg with these changes:

1. Replace GREG* g = yyparse_new(k) with something like this:

GREG* g = (GREG *) calloc(1, sizeof(GREG));
((GREG*)g)->data = k;

1. Replace yyparse_free(g) with something like this:

yydeinit(g);
free(g);

1. Remove last argument, D, from YY_INPUT definition
2. Add something like this near the end of the code preamble:

#define G yy
#define _yycontext _GREG
#define yycontext GREG
#define YY_XTYPE void *
#define YY_CTX_MEMBERS YY_XTYPE data;
#define YY_CTX_LOCAL
#define YY_INPUT(buf, result, max_size) handle_input(G->data, buf, &result, max_size)
#define yydeinit(a) YYRELEASE(a)

The first two points can be applied even if you continue to use GREG. I was not using error reporting features from GREG, so I do not have advices about it.

I hope this would be helpful.

[alexnask]

@giuliopaci Thanks, this is very helpful :)