Not necessarily relevant but marpa_v_step() can return a negative number on
failure, and I think this is not handled.  In particular there are a number
of cases of unexpected returns from marpa_v_step() which you handle via
fall-through which probably are better treated as fatal errors.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Andreas Kupries <akupr...@shaw.ca> wrote:

>
> > Looked some more at `rule` and `rslot` and I not 100% sure it's wrong,
> but
> > I can't convince myself it's right.
>
> I actually cannot test that this part is working and correct, because
> according to my trace the `case MARPA_MARPA_STEP_RULE` is never
> entered at all, because `marpa_v_step` is somehow not providing this
> step type, nor any of the other types outside of token and inactive.
>
> Example traces attached, for lexer and bocage. The `rule 65535` in the
> lexer is because the code never goes through the rule case, leaving
> the variable uninitialized as ((unsigned short) -1).
>
> Both traces span bytes (ascii chars) 0-63 of the meta grammar, the
> initial hash comment. The two underlying grammars are slighty different
> because
> the Tcl engine operates on (unicode) characters and handles
> charclasses through the Tcl regex (as much as possible), and the
> C-level engines operates on bytes with the UTF-8 strings and
> charclasses of the original grammar fully deconstructed into sequences
> of bytes and byte alternatives (See [2]).
>
> Regardless, what I am trying to do with `rslot` is to get the
> next-to-last rule application, which due to how the lexer grammar is
> set up (see below) should be the rule for L [1] (while the last rule
> in the steps is for @L0START [0] itself).
>
> I.e. for a lexeme L, and its ACS (*) A(L)
>
>         [0]     @L0START := A(L) L
>         [1]     L := ...
>
> (*) Acceptability Control Symbol (for LATM). LTM symbols are in the
>     'always' section whose ACS is always entered as initial
>     alternative after lexer start_input. The LATM symbols have their
>     ACS entered only when the parser signals them as acceptable.
>
> The 'rslot' array is a history ring buffer of two elements. At the
> end of the loop the last rule entered is [0] and the ring-index points
> to the next element to fill, currently containing the next-to-last
> rule id.
>
> [2] https://core.tcl.tk/akupries/marpa/artifact/
> 7597d1df8f52e366?ln=515-523
>     https://core.tcl.tk/akupries/marpa/artifact/
> 7597d1df8f52e366?ln=546-551
>
>     The two below compile a charclass from set of char-ranges into
>     alternation of byte sequences, in C and Tcl
>
>     https://core.tcl.tk/akupries/marpa/artifact/51c800180911b96c
>     https://core.tcl.tk/akupries/marpa/artifact/da0c004acee1e326?ln=145 ff
>
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Jeffrey Kegler <
> > jeffreykeg...@jeffreykegler.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry to take so long.
> > >
> > > Ambitious stuff!
>
> Also at the beginning. No handling of the low-level marpa events, no
> to speak of handling SLIF event, ruby slippers and the like.
> Just the core lexer/parser dual engine for now
>
> > > Nothing obvious.  If it were my code, I'd first double-check the `rule`
> > > and `rslot` logic, though nothing about it is obviously wrong.
>
> --
> See you,
>         Andreas Kupries <akupr...@shaw.ca>
>                         <http://core.tcl.tk/akupries/>
>         Developer @     SUSE (MicroFocus Canada LLC)
>                         <andreas.kupr...@suse.com>
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