From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dominik Honnef <dominik@honnef.co>, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
Cc: 66674@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66674: 30.0.50; Upstream tree-sitter and treesit disagree about fields
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:03:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835y2ukg6p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edhnzp9t.fsf@honnef.co> (message from Dominik Honnef on Sat, 21 Oct 2023 22:36:30 +0200)
> From: Dominik Honnef <dominik@honnef.co>
> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 22:36:30 +0200
>
> Using tree-sitter's CLI as well as the publicly hosted playground
> produce different parse trees than treesit in Emacs. Specifically, the
> assignment of nodes to named fields differs.
>
> Given the following C source:
>
> void main() {
> int x = // foo
> 1+
> // comment
> 2;
> }
>
> treesit-explore-mode displays the following tree:
>
> (translation_unit
> (function_definition type: (primitive_type)
> declarator:
> (function_declarator declarator: (identifier)
> parameters: (parameter_list ( )))
> body:
> (compound_statement {
> (declaration type: (primitive_type)
> declarator:
> (init_declarator declarator: (identifier) = value: (comment)
> (binary_expression left: (number_literal) operator: + right: (comment) (number_literal)))
> ;)
> })))
>
> Note how in the init_declarator node, the 'value' field is a comment
> node, and similarly for the 'right' field in the binary_expression node.
>
> Running 'tree-sitter parse file.c', on the other hand, produces the
> following tree:
>
> (translation_unit [0, 0] - [6, 0]
> (function_definition [0, 0] - [5, 1]
> type: (primitive_type [0, 0] - [0, 4])
> declarator: (function_declarator [0, 5] - [0, 11]
> declarator: (identifier [0, 5] - [0, 9])
> parameters: (parameter_list [0, 9] - [0, 11]))
> body: (compound_statement [0, 12] - [5, 1]
> (declaration [1, 2] - [4, 6]
> type: (primitive_type [1, 2] - [1, 5])
> declarator: (init_declarator [1, 6] - [4, 5]
> declarator: (identifier [1, 6] - [1, 7])
> (comment [1, 10] - [1, 16])
> value: (binary_expression [2, 4] - [4, 5]
> left: (number_literal [2, 4] - [2, 5])
> (comment [3, 4] - [3, 14])
> right: (number_literal [4, 4] - [4, 5])))))))
>
> Here, the two comment nodes appear as unnamed nodes. IMHO the second
> tree is a more useful one, as the named fields contain the semantically
> important subtrees (e.g. a binary expression is made up of a left and
> right subtree, not a left subtree, a right comment, and then some
> unnamed subtree.)
>
> Emacs's tree makes writing queries less convenient, as instead of being
> able to refer to well-defined names, one has to rely on child indices to
> account for comments.
>
>
> Further mismatch arises from repeated fields and separators.
>
> Consider the following Go source:
>
> package pkg
>
> var a, b, c = 1, 2, 3
>
> treesit-explore-mode displays the following tree:
>
> (source_file
> (package_clause package (package_identifier))
> \n
> (var_declaration var
> (var_spec name: (identifier) name: , (identifier) value: , (identifier) =
> (expression_list (int_literal) , (int_literal) , (int_literal))))
> \n)
>
> Here, the var_spec node has two fields named 'name' even though the
> source specifies three names. Furthermore, The second 'name', as well as
> 'value' are set to the ',' separator between identifiers. Two of the three
> identifiers aren't named.
>
> 'tree-sitter parse file.go', on the other hand, produces this more
> accurate tree:
>
> (source_file [0, 0] - [2, 21]
> (package_clause [0, 0] - [0, 11]
> (package_identifier [0, 8] - [0, 11]))
> (var_declaration [2, 0] - [2, 21]
> (var_spec [2, 4] - [2, 21]
> name: (identifier [2, 4] - [2, 5])
> name: (identifier [2, 7] - [2, 8])
> name: (identifier [2, 10] - [2, 11])
> value: (expression_list [2, 14] - [2, 21]
> (int_literal [2, 14] - [2, 15])
> (int_literal [2, 17] - [2, 18])
> (int_literal [2, 20] - [2, 21])))))
>
> This reproduces with 29.1 as well as 30.0.50.
Yuan, any comments or suggestions?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-25 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-21 20:36 bug#66674: 30.0.50; Upstream tree-sitter and treesit disagree about fields Dominik Honnef
2023-10-25 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-19 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-25 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-10 10:07 ` Yuan Fu
2023-12-10 14:28 ` Dominik Honnef
2023-12-11 1:02 ` Yuan Fu
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