Reading the libmarpa doc: the application must maintain the stack ensuring
that it has the correct size for the valuation steps —
http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Marpa-web-site/libmarpa_api/latest/Maintaining-the-stack.html#Maintaining-the-stack
— hope this helps.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Dylan Ede <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have just bumped into a situation where the valuator always produces a
> rule step that has arguments beginning from -1 for a particular rule. The
> rule is a sequence of 5 symbols, and is also the start rule. The first two
> are the same terminal symbol. marpa_v_arg_0 gives -1. marpa_v_arg_n gives
> 3. When this rule step is reached, there are only 4 items on the stack,
> corresponding to the last 4 symbols in the rule. According to the libmarpa
> documentation, marpa_v_arg_0 never fails, and returns a valid stack
> position. -1 is not a valid stack position, so what's gone wrong? This
> problem only occurs when the first two symbols are a particular symbol. Is
> there something I must have done wrong with this symbol?
>
> Other than this problem, I must say that libmarpa is a quite brilliant
> library for parsing.
>
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