Dump bison

[Hal Murray]

esr at thyrsus.com said:
> I thought about that back when I was looking at this code.  Concluded it
> wouldn't be that useful to (effectively) just dump the input tokens with a
> slightly different syntax. 

How else would you check/test a parser?

Why should the syntax be slightly different?  If it is the same, I can use 
diff to check things.

How useful is that level of checking?  I'm a bit surprised we don't have 
something like that.  Are we just coasting along, depending on that area not 
being changed much and/or any additions will get tested by the implementer 
before it is committed?

There is one rough area.  The order of some parameters is lost.  The 
parameters to the server command are collected in a peer_ctl struct.  They can 
be specified in any order.


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