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6* Russian translation added.
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8* NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
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10* Added the old Bison reference card.
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12* Added `--locations' and `%locations'.
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14* Added `-S' and `--skeleton'.
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16* Special characters are escaped when output. This solves the problems
17 of the #line lines with path names including backslashes.
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19* New directives.
20 `%yacc', `%fixed_output_files', `%defines', `%no_parser', `%verbose', and
21 `%debug'.
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23Changes in version 1.28:
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25* Should compile better now with K&R compilers.
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27* Added NLS.
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29* Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character.
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31* There is now a FAQ.
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33Changes in version 1.27:
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35* The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on
36 some systems has been fixed.
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38Changes in version 1.26:
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40* Bison now uses automake.
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42* New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>.
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44* Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258.
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46* Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable.
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48* A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed.
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50* Problems when closing files should now be reported.
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52* Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do
53 not provide alloca().
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5c31c3c2 55Changes in version 1.25:
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57* Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading
58the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it.
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60* Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for
61example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead
62of chosing a name like LESSEQ.
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64* The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names
65and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this
66table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other
67purposes.
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69* The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor
70directives in the parser file.
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72* The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not
73Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros.
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75* The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including
76the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine.
77The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of
78a switch statement body.
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80Changes in version 1.23:
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82The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be
83passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should
84actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable
85by casting it to the proper pointer type.
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6780ca7a 87Line numbers in output file corrected.
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89Changes in version 1.22:
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91--help option added.
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93Changes in version 1.20:
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95Output file does not redefine const for C++.