Thank you for a quick hint! I've just tried your code and unless I do something wrong ... I get this output: Syntax error:abc 8.81 Parsed:-a atoken Syntax error:-b btoken Syntax error:-c ctoken Syntax error:-d dtoken
– G. Civardi 2 hours ago
Okay, so, I couldn't leave it alone :/
Turns out there was Undefined Behaviour involved, because of the way in which parser expressions were being passed to expandBitwise
and being copied: Boost Proto expression templates weren't designed to be copied as they may contain references to temporaries, whose lifetime ends at the end of their containing full-expression.
See for more background, the discussion at Zero to 60 MPH in 2 seconds!
After a long (long) time of tweaking with rule_.alias()
and boost::proto::deepcopy
I have reached the following solution (which, incidentally, doesn't need a helper function at all, anymore):
template<typename ...Tail>
void mparse(const std::string& line,Tail& ...tail)
{
auto parser = boost::fusion::fold(
boost::tie(ph::bind(&TStruct::rule_, arg1)(tail)...),
qi::eps(false),
deepcopy_(arg2 | arg1)
);
auto f=begin(line), l=end(line);
if( qi::phrase_parse(f, l, parser, ascii::space ) )
std::cout << "Parsed:" << line << std::endl;
else
std::cout << "Syntax error:" << line << std::endl;
if (f!=l)
std::cout << "Remaining unparsed: '" << std::string(f,l) << "'
";
}
The protection against UB is the deepcopy_()
invocation, which is a trivial polymorphic callable adaptor for boost::proto::deepcopy
:
struct DeepCopy
{
template<typename E> struct result { typedef typename boost::proto::result_of::deep_copy<E>::type type; };
template<typename E>
typename result<E>::type
operator()(E const& expr) const {
return boost::proto::deep_copy(expr);
}
};
static const ph::function<DeepCopy> deepcopy_;
With this code, lo and behold, the output becomes:
Syntax error:abc 8.81
Remaining unparsed: 'abc 8.81'
Parsed:-a atoken
Parsed:-b btoken
Parsed:-c ctoken
Parsed:-d dtoken
Bye
As a bonus, the code now allows you to use Spirit's builtin debug() capabilities (uncomment that line):
<-d>
<try>abc 8.81</try>
<fail/>
</-d>
<-c>
<try>abc 8.81</try>
<fail/>
</-c>
<-b>
<try>abc 8.81</try>
<fail/>
</-b>
<-a>
<try>abc 8.81</try>
<fail/>
</-a>
Syntax error:abc 8.81
Remaining unparsed: 'abc 8.81'
Tested with
- Boost 1_54_0
- GCC 4.7.2, 4.8.x, Clang 3.2
- Note the
#define
s which are significant.
FULL CODE
#define BOOST_RESULT_OF_USE_DECLTYPE
#define BOOST_SPIRIT_USE_PHOENIX_V3
#include <boost/fusion/adapted/boost_tuple.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/include/fold.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/qi.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/phoenix.hpp>
namespace qi = boost::spirit::qi;
namespace ph = boost::phoenix;
namespace ascii = boost::spirit::ascii;
using namespace ph::arg_names;
typedef qi::rule<std::string::const_iterator,ascii::space_type> mrule_t;
typedef qi::rule<std::string::const_iterator,std::string() > wrule_t;
struct TStruct
{
mrule_t rule_;
template<typename T,typename R>
TStruct( T& rVar,const std::string&name, R& rule ) :
rule_( qi::lit(name) >> rule[ ph::ref(rVar) = qi::_1 ] )
{
rule_.name(name);
// debug(rule_);
}
};
struct DeepCopy
{
template<typename E> struct result { typedef typename boost::proto::result_of::deep_copy<E>::type type; };
template<typename E>
typename result<E>::type
operator()(E const& expr) const {
return boost::proto::deep_copy(expr);
}
};
static const ph::function<DeepCopy> deepcopy_;
template<typename ...Tail>
void mparse(const std::string& line,Tail& ...tail)
{
auto parser = boost::fusion::fold(
boost::tie(ph::bind(&TStruct::rule_, arg1)(tail)...),
qi::eps(false),
deepcopy_(arg2 | arg1)
);
auto f=begin(line), l=end(line);
if( qi::phrase_parse(f, l, parser, ascii::space ) )
std::cout << "Parsed:" << line << std::endl;
else
std::cout << "Syntax error:" << line << std::endl;
if (f!=l)
std::cout << "Remaining unparsed: '" << std::string(f,l) << "'
";
}
int main()
{
wrule_t rword=+~ascii::space;
std::string par1,par2,par3,par4;
TStruct r1( par1, "-a", rword );
TStruct r2( par2, "-b", rword );
TStruct r3( par3, "-c", rword );
TStruct r4( par4, "-d", rword );
mparse("abc 8.81" ,r1,r2,r3,r4);
mparse("-a atoken" ,r1,r2,r3,r4);
mparse("-b btoken" ,r1,r2,r3,r4);
mparse("-c ctoken" ,r1,r2,r3,r4);
mparse("-d dtoken" ,r1,r2,r3,r4);
std::cout << "Bye
";
}