WIP: add --fdump-tree=FILE option

[lefessan]

Dump the AST/tree to a file, for debugging purpose.

Use the extension of FILE to choose the format of output:

• .ml : OCaml code format
• any other: JSON format (output validated by jsonlint-php)

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[GitMensch]

Would it be reasonable to use -fdump-something similar to GCC https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Developer-Options.html ? Note: I don't have any idea if there are options that output JSON.

Question: What is the OCAML ml and where can I read more about it? What would this output be used for?

In any case please provide test cases with sample output (and to be sure that this doesn't break anything execute make checkall at least once passing this option in COBOL_FLAGS.

[lefessan]

I changed the options to -fdump-tree and -fdump-tree-flags, it should be close enough gcc devs expectations.

I ran all the testsuite with both formats (using env variables to not modify scripts), and I could validate both OCaml and JSON files.

I am not sure that adding a test in the testsuite would be a good idea: (1) the output depends on the internal types in tree.h, and (2) even for small examples, the output is pretty big, a few thousands lines...

The OCaml format is actually standard syntax for basic types in the OCaml language (https://ocaml.org). Since I mostly always program in OCaml (except for GnuCOBOL :-) ), it is easier for me to have this format than JSON, as I could easily write tools to simplify/filter information in the AST.

For examples, JSON format (with flags +Ai):

{
   "type_": "cb_program",
   "address_": " 0x559ec2ee75f8",
   "common": {
      "tag": { "type_": "cb_tag", "value_": "PROGRAM" },
      "source_file": "test.cob"
   },
   "program_name": "DOUBLE-OPEN",
   "program_id": "DOUBLE__OPEN",
   "orig_program_id": "DOUBLE-OPEN",
   "word_table": { "type_": "TODO", "value_": "struct cb_word **" },
   "local_include": { "type_": "TODO", "value_": "struct local_filename*" },
   "entry_list": [
      {
         "type_": "cb_list",
         "address_": " 0x559ec2f45138",
         "purpose": {
            "type_": "cb_label",
            "address_": " 0x559ec2f44f78",
            "common": {
               "tag": { "type_": "cb_tag", "value_": "LABEL" },
               "source_file": "test.cob",
               "source_line": 39
            },
            "name": "DOUBLE__OPEN",
            "orig_name": "DOUBLE-OPEN",
            "xref": { "type_": "TODO", "value_": "struct cb_xref" },
...

whereas OCaml format looks like:

RECORD [
   "type_", STRING "cb_program";
   "address_", POINTER 0x55acb46095f8L;
   "common", RECORD [
      "tag", CONSTR ("cb_tag", STRING "PROGRAM");
      "source_file", STRING "test.cob";
   ];
   "program_name", STRING "DOUBLE-OPEN";
   "program_id", STRING "DOUBLE__OPEN";
   "orig_program_id", STRING "DOUBLE-OPEN";
   "word_table", CONSTR ("TODO", STRING "struct cb_word **");
   "local_include", CONSTR ("TODO", STRING "struct local_filename*");
   "entry_list", LIST [
      RECORD [
         "type_", STRING "cb_list";
         "address_", POINTER 0x55acb4667138L;
         "purpose", RECORD [
            "type_", STRING "cb_label";
            "address_", POINTER 0x55acb4666f78L;
            "common", RECORD [
               "tag", CONSTR ("cb_tag", STRING "LABEL");
               "source_file", STRING "test.cob";
               "source_line", INT( 39);
            ];
            "name", STRING "DOUBLE__OPEN";
            "orig_name", STRING "DOUBLE-OPEN";
            "xref", CONSTR ("TODO", STRING "struct cb_xref");
...

[lefessan]

Note that there are still some TODOs in the code. There are many fields in these data structures, and it's not clear what should be printed or not.

Also, it might be interesting at some point to have "levels" of importance for fields, so that, for example, only important fields would be printed at level 1, then less important fields at level 2, and so on... However, such levels should probably be decided after experimenting with using these outputs for real debugging.