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ed7658fe 1GNU Bison NEWS
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52718713 3* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
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5** Incompatible changes
6
7*** Obsolete features
8
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9 Support for YYFAIL is removed (deprecated in Bison 2.4.2): use YYERROR.
10
11 Support for yystype and yyltype is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875):
12 use YYSTYPE and YYLTYPE.
13
14 Support for YYLEX_PARAM and YYPARSE_PARAM is removed (deprecated in Bison
15 1.875): use %lex-param, %parse-param, or %param.
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17** Warnings
18
1048a1c9 19*** Enhancements of the -Werror option
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1048a1c9 21 The -Werror=CATEGORY option is now recognized, and will treat specified
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22 warnings as errors. The warnings need not have been explicitly activated
23 using the -W option, this is similar to what GCC 4.7 does.
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24
25 For example, given the following command line, Bison will treat both
d949eefd 26 warnings related to POSIX Yacc incompatibilities and S/R conflicts as
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27 errors (and only those):
28
29 $ bison -Werror=yacc,error=conflicts-sr input.y
30
31 If no categories are specified, -Werror will make all active warnings into
32 errors. For example, the following line does the same the previous example:
33
34 $ bison -Werror -Wnone -Wyacc -Wconflicts-sr input.y
35
36 (By default -Wconflicts-sr,conflicts-rr,deprecated,other is enabled.)
37
38 Note that the categories in this -Werror option may not be prefixed with
39 "no-". However, -Wno-error[=CATEGORY] is valid.
40
41 Note that -y enables -Werror=yacc. Therefore it is now possible to require
42 Yacc-like behavior (e.g., always generate y.tab.c), but to report
43 incompatibilities as warnings: "-y -Wno-error=yacc".
518e8830 44
46bdb8ec 45*** The display of warnings is now richer
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46bdb8ec 47 The option that controls a given warning is now displayed:
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46bdb8ec 49 foo.y:4.6: warning: type clash on default action: <foo> != <bar> [-Wother]
73370a9d 50
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51 In the case of warnings treated as errors, the prefix is changed from
52 "warning: " to "error: ", and the suffix is displayed, in a manner similar
d949eefd 53 to GCC, as [-Werror=CATEGORY].
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55 For instance, where the previous version of Bison would report (and exit
56 with failure):
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58 bison: warnings being treated as errors
46bdb8ec 59 input.y:1.1: warning: stray ',' treated as white space
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46bdb8ec 61 it now reports:
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63 input.y:1.1: error: stray ',' treated as white space [-Werror=other]
64
65*** Deprecated constructs
66
67 The new 'deprecated' warning category flags obsolete constructs whose
68 support will be discontinued. It is enabled by default. These warnings
69 used to be reported as 'other' warnings.
70
73370a9d 71*** Useless semantic types
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73 Bison now warns about useless (uninhabited) semantic types. Since
74 semantic types are not declared to Bison (they are defined in the opaque
75 %union structure), it is %printer/%destructor directives about useless
76 types that trigger the warning:
77
78 %token <type1> term
79 %type <type2> nterm
80 %printer {} <type1> <type3>
81 %destructor {} <type2> <type4>
82 %%
83 nterm: term { $$ = $1; };
84
85 3.28-34: warning: type <type3> is used, but is not associated to any symbol
86 4.28-34: warning: type <type4> is used, but is not associated to any symbol
87
31557b9e 88*** Undefined but unused symbols
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90 Bison used to raise an error for undefined symbols that are not used in
91 the grammar. This is now only a warning.
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93 %printer {} symbol1
94 %destructor {} symbol2
31557b9e 95 %type <type> symbol3
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97 exp: "a";
98
73370a9d 99*** Useless destructors or printers
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101 Bison now warns about useless destructors or printers. In the following
102 example, the printer for <type1>, and the destructor for <type2> are
103 useless: all symbols of <type1> (token1) already have a printer, and all
104 symbols of type <type2> (token2) already have a destructor.
105
106 %token <type1> token1
107 <type2> token2
108 <type3> token3
109 <type4> token4
110 %printer {} token1 <type1> <type3>
111 %destructor {} token2 <type2> <type4>
112
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113*** Conflicts
114
115 The warnings and error messages about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce
116 conflicts have been normalized. For instance on the following foo.y file:
117
118 %glr-parser
119 %%
120 exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0';
121
122 compare the previous version of bison:
123
124 $ bison foo.y
125 foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
126 $ bison -Werror foo.y
127 bison: warnings being treated as errors
128 foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
129
130 with the new behavior:
131
132 $ bison foo.y
133 foo.y: warning: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Wconflicts-sr]
134 foo.y: warning: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Wconflicts-rr]
135 $ bison -Werror foo.y
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136 foo.y: error: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Werror=conflicts-sr]
137 foo.y: error: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Werror=conflicts-rr]
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138
139 When %expect or %expect-rr is used, such as with bar.y:
140
141 %expect 0
142 %glr-parser
143 %%
144 exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0';
145
146 Former behavior:
147
148 $ bison bar.y
149 bar.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
150 bar.y: expected 0 shift/reduce conflicts
151 bar.y: expected 0 reduce/reduce conflicts
152
153 New one:
154
155 $ bison bar.y
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156 bar.y: error: shift/reduce conflicts: 1 found, 0 expected
157 bar.y: error: reduce/reduce conflicts: 2 found, 0 expected
d87ea54c 158
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159** Additional yylex/yyparse arguments
160
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161 The new directive %param declares additional arguments to both yylex and
162 yyparse. The %lex-param, %parse-param, and %param directives support one
163 or more arguments. Instead of
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165 %lex-param {arg1_type *arg1}
166 %lex-param {arg2_type *arg2}
167 %parse-param {arg1_type *arg1}
168 %parse-param {arg2_type *arg2}
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169
170 one may now declare
171
e436fa67 172 %param {arg1_type *arg1} {arg2_type *arg2}
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173
174** Java skeleton improvements
0ea583d2 175
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176 The constants for token names were moved to the Lexer interface. Also, it
177 is possible to add code to the parser's constructors using "%code init"
178 and "%define init_throws".
0ea583d2 179
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180** C++ skeletons improvements
181
e4c0985b 182*** The parser header is no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
93549bcd 183
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184 Using %defines is now optional. Without it, the needed support classes
185 are defined in the generated parser, instead of additional files (such as
186 location.hh, position.hh and stack.hh).
93549bcd 187
e4c0985b 188*** Locations are no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
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189
190 Both lalr1.cc and glr.cc no longer require %location.
191
192*** syntax_error exception (lalr1.cc)
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193
194 The C++ parser features a syntax_error exception, which can be
195 thrown from the scanner or from user rules to raise syntax errors.
196 This facilitates reporting errors caught in sub-functions (e.g.,
197 rejecting too large integral literals from a conversion function
198 used by the scanner, or rejecting invalid combinations from a
199 factory invoked by the user actions).
200
2a6b66c5 201** Variable api.token.prefix
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2a6b66c5 203 The variable api.token.prefix changes the way tokens are identified in
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204 the generated files. This is especially useful to avoid collisions
205 with identifiers in the target language. For instance
206
e436fa67 207 %token FILE for ERROR
2a6b66c5 208 %define api.token.prefix "TOK_"
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209 %%
210 start: FILE for ERROR;
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211
212 will generate the definition of the symbols TOK_FILE, TOK_for, and
213 TOK_ERROR in the generated sources. In particular, the scanner must
214 use these prefixed token names, although the grammar itself still
215 uses the short names (as in the sample rule given above).
216
f3bc3386 217** Renamed %define variables
67501061 218
f3bc3386 219 The following variables have been renamed for consistency. Backward
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220 compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended.
221
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222 lr.default-reductions -> lr.default-reduction
223 lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state
224 namespace -> api.namespace
225
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226** Variable parse.error
227
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228 This variable controls the verbosity of error messages. The use of the
229 %error-verbose directive is deprecated in favor of "%define parse.error
230 verbose".
31b850d2 231
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232** Semantic predicates
233
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234 The new, experimental, semantic-predicate feature allows actions of the
235 form "%?{ BOOLEAN-EXPRESSION }", which cause syntax errors (as for
ca2a6d15 236 YYERROR) if the expression evaluates to 0, and are evaluated immediately
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237 in GLR parsers, rather than being deferred. The result is that they allow
238 the programmer to prune possible parses based on the values of run-time
239 expressions.
ca2a6d15 240
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241** The directive %expect-rr is now an error in non GLR mode
242
243 It used to be an error only if used in non GLR mode, _and_ if there are
244 reduce/reduce conflicts.
245
c13bb348 246* Noteworthy changes in release 2.7 (2012-12-12) [stable]
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edf9a06f 248** Bug fixes
7bada535 249
edf9a06f 250 Warnings about uninitialized yylloc in yyparse have been fixed.
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252 Restored C90 compliance (yet no report was ever made).
253
d4fe9e88 254** Diagnostics are improved
7bada535 255
d4fe9e88 256*** Changes in the format of error messages
7bada535 257
d4fe9e88 258 This used to be the format of many error reports:
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260 input.y:2.7-12: %type redeclaration for exp
261 input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
1f1bd572 262
d4fe9e88 263 It is now:
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265 input.y:2.7-12: error: %type redeclaration for exp
266 input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
cbaea010 267
d4fe9e88 268*** New format for error reports: carets
cbaea010 269
d4fe9e88 270 Caret errors have been added to Bison:
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272 input.y:2.7-12: error: %type redeclaration for exp
273 %type <sval> exp
274 ^^^^^^
275 input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
276 %type <ival> exp
277 ^^^^^^
cbaea010 278
d4fe9e88 279 or
cbaea010 280
7bada535 281 input.y:3.20-23: error: ambiguous reference: '$exp'
fb6040f0 282 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
7bada535 283 ^^^^
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284 input.y:3.1-3: refers to: $exp at $$
285 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
286 ^^^
287 input.y:3.6-8: refers to: $exp at $1
288 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
289 ^^^
290 input.y:3.14-16: refers to: $exp at $3
291 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
292 ^^^
7bada535 293
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294 The default behaviour for now is still not to display these unless
295 explictly asked with -fcaret (or -fall). However, in a later release, it
296 will be made the default behavior (but may still be deactivated with
297 -fno-caret).
d3e4409a 298
1f1bd572 299** New value for %define variable: api.pure full
d3e4409a 300
1f1bd572 301 The %define variable api.pure requests a pure (reentrant) parser. However,
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302 for historical reasons, using it in a location-tracking Yacc parser
303 resulted in a yyerror function that did not take a location as a
304 parameter. With this new value, the user may request a better pure parser,
305 where yyerror does take a location as a parameter (in location-tracking
306 parsers).
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308 The use of "%define api.pure true" is deprecated in favor of this new
309 "%define api.pure full".
d3e4409a 310
7287be84 311** New %define variable: api.location.type (glr.cc, lalr1.cc, lalr1.java)
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312
313 The %define variable api.location.type defines the name of the type to use
314 for locations. When defined, Bison no longer generates the position.hh
315 and location.hh files, nor does the parser will include them: the user is
316 then responsible to define her type.
317
318 This can be used in programs with several parsers to factor their location
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319 and position files: let one of them generate them, and the others just use
320 them.
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322 This feature was actually introduced, but not documented, in Bison 2.5,
323 under the name "location_type" (which is maintained for backward
324 compatibility).
325
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326 For consistency, lalr1.java's %define variables location_type and
327 position_type are deprecated in favor of api.location.type and
328 api.position.type.
329
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330** Exception safety (lalr1.cc)
331
332 The parse function now catches exceptions, uses the %destructors to
333 release memory (the lookahead symbol and the symbols pushed on the stack)
334 before re-throwing the exception.
335
336 This feature is somewhat experimental. User feedback would be
337 appreciated.
338
9c16d399 339** Graph improvements in DOT and XSLT
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340
341 The graphical presentation of the states is more readable: their shape is
342 now rectangular, the state number is clearly displayed, and the items are
343 numbered and left-justified.
344
345 The reductions are now explicitly represented as transitions to other
346 diamond shaped nodes.
347
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348 These changes are present in both --graph output and xml2dot.xsl XSLT
349 processing, with minor (documented) differences.
350
d4fe9e88 351** %language is no longer an experimental feature.
fb4c8a7c 352
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353 The introduction of this feature, in 2.4, was four years ago. The
354 --language option and the %language directive are no longer experimental.
fb4c8a7c 355
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356** Documentation
357
358 The sections about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts resolution
359 have been fixed and extended.
9d2423f5 360
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361 Although introduced more than four years ago, XML and Graphviz reports
362 were not properly documented.
363
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364 The translation of mid-rule actions is now described.
365
9d3f7eaf 366* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.5 (2012-11-07) [stable]
6f1360bd 367
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368 We consider compiler warnings about Bison generated parsers to be bugs.
369 Rather than working around them in your own project, please consider
370 reporting them to us.
371
372** Bug fixes
373
374 Warnings about uninitialized yylval and/or yylloc for push parsers with a
375 pure interface have been fixed for GCC 4.0 up to 4.8, and Clang 2.9 to
376 3.2.
377
378 Other issues in the test suite have been addressed.
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380 Nul characters are correctly displayed in error messages.
381
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382 When possible, yylloc is correctly initialized before calling yylex. It
383 is no longer necessary to initialize it in the %initial-action.
384
0ac15849 385* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.4 (2012-10-23) [stable]
a4eb820f 386
468455e1 387 Bison 2.6.3's --version was incorrect. This release fixes this issue.
a4eb820f 388
6eb8f74f 389* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.3 (2012-10-22) [stable]
933ec544 390
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391** Bug fixes
392
a1a77e1f 393 Bugs and portability issues in the test suite have been fixed.
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394
395 Some errors in translations have been addressed, and --help now directs
396 users to the appropriate place to report them.
397
398 Stray Info files shipped by accident are removed.
399
400 Incorrect definitions of YY_, issued by yacc.c when no parser header is
401 generated, are removed.
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403 All the generated headers are self-contained.
404
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405** Header guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
406
407 In order to avoid collisions, the header guards are now
408 YY_<PREFIX>_<FILE>_INCLUDED, instead of merely <PREFIX>_<FILE>.
409 For instance the header generated from
410
411 %define api.prefix "calc"
412 %defines "lib/parse.h"
413
414 will use YY_CALC_LIB_PARSE_H_INCLUDED as guard.
415
c12c4c50 416** Fix compiler warnings in the generated parser (yacc.c, glr.c)
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418 The compilation of pure parsers (%define api.pure) can trigger GCC
419 warnings such as:
420
421 input.c: In function 'yyparse':
422 input.c:1503:12: warning: 'yylval' may be used uninitialized in this
423 function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
424 *++yyvsp = yylval;
425 ^
426
427 This is now fixed; pragmas to avoid these warnings are no longer needed.
428
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429 Warnings from clang ("equality comparison with extraneous parentheses" and
430 "function declared 'noreturn' should not return") have also been
431 addressed.
432
e1eeecd3 433* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.2 (2012-08-03) [stable]
9c26b8fc 434
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435** Bug fixes
436
437 Buffer overruns, complaints from Flex, and portability issues in the test
438 suite have been fixed.
439
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440** Spaces in %lex- and %parse-param (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
441
442 Trailing end-of-lines in %parse-param or %lex-param would result in
443 invalid C++. This is fixed.
9c26b8fc 444
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445** Spurious spaces and end-of-lines
446
447 The generated files no longer end (nor start) with empty lines.
448
77b214ef 449* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.1 (2012-07-30) [stable]
a4107f24 450
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451 Bison no longer executes user-specified M4 code when processing a grammar.
452
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453** Future Changes
454
455 In addition to the removal of the features announced in Bison 2.6, the
456 next major release will remove the "Temporary hack for adding a semicolon
457 to the user action", as announced in the release 2.5. Instead of:
458
459 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
460
461 write:
462
463 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
464
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465** Bug fixes
466
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467*** Type names are now properly escaped.
468
469*** glr.cc: set_debug_level and debug_level work as expected.
a4107f24 470
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471*** Stray @ or $ in actions
472
473 While Bison used to warn about stray $ or @ in action rules, it did not
474 for other actions such as printers, destructors, or initial actions. It
475 now does.
476
cd735a8c 477** Type names in actions
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478
479 For consistency with rule actions, it is now possible to qualify $$ by a
cd735a8c 480 type-name in destructors, printers, and initial actions. For instance:
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482 %printer { fprintf (yyo, "(%d, %f)", $<ival>$, $<fval>$); } <*> <>;
483
484 will display two values for each typed and untyped symbol (provided
cd735a8c 485 that YYSTYPE has both "ival" and "fval" fields).
60aa04a2 486
1505e8bb 487* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2012-07-19) [stable]
0f11eec2 488
d0a30438 489** Future changes
9553083c 490
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491 The next major release of Bison will drop support for the following
492 deprecated features. Please report disagreements to bug-bison@gnu.org.
0f11eec2 493
aaf61036 494*** K&R C parsers
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496 Support for generating parsers in K&R C will be removed. Parsers
242cc08e 497 generated for C support ISO C90, and are tested with ISO C99 and ISO C11
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498 compilers.
499
258cddbc 500*** Features deprecated since Bison 1.875
0f11eec2 501
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502 The definitions of yystype and yyltype will be removed; use YYSTYPE and
503 YYLTYPE.
0f11eec2 504
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505 YYPARSE_PARAM and YYLEX_PARAM, deprecated in favor of %parse-param and
506 %lex-param, will no longer be supported.
507
508 Support for the preprocessor symbol YYERROR_VERBOSE will be removed, use
509 %error-verbose.
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511*** The generated header will be included (yacc.c)
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513 Instead of duplicating the content of the generated header (definition of
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514 YYSTYPE, yyparse declaration etc.), the generated parser will include it,
515 as is already the case for GLR or C++ parsers. This change is deferred
516 because existing versions of ylwrap (e.g., Automake 1.12.1) do not support
517 it.
0f11eec2 518
c2425191 519** Generated Parser Headers
56ca3d8f 520
258cddbc 521*** Guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
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523 The generated headers are now guarded, as is already the case for C++
242cc08e 524 parsers (lalr1.cc). For instance, with --defines=foo.h:
c3e9f08f 525
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526 #ifndef YY_FOO_H
527 # define YY_FOO_H
528 ...
529 #endif /* !YY_FOO_H */
c3e9f08f 530
258cddbc 531*** New declarations (yacc.c, glr.c)
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533 The generated header now declares yydebug and yyparse. Both honor
534 --name-prefix=bar_, and yield
535
e29f0771 536 int bar_parse (void);
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537
538 rather than
539
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540 #define yyparse bar_parse
541 int yyparse (void);
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543 in order to facilitate the inclusion of several parser headers inside a
544 single compilation unit.
c3e9f08f 545
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546*** Exported symbols in C++
547
548 The symbols YYTOKEN_TABLE and YYERROR_VERBOSE, which were defined in the
549 header, are removed, as they prevent the possibility of including several
550 generated headers from a single compilation unit.
551
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552*** YYLSP_NEEDED
553
554 For the same reasons, the undocumented and unused macro YYLSP_NEEDED is no
555 longer defined.
556
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557** New %define variable: api.prefix
558
559 Now that the generated headers are more complete and properly protected
560 against multiple inclusions, constant names, such as YYSTYPE are a
561 problem. While yyparse and others are properly renamed by %name-prefix,
562 YYSTYPE, YYDEBUG and others have never been affected by it. Because it
563 would introduce backward compatibility issues in projects not expecting
564 YYSTYPE to be renamed, instead of changing the behavior of %name-prefix,
565 it is deprecated in favor of a new %define variable: api.prefix.
566
567 The following examples compares both:
568
569 %name-prefix "bar_" | %define api.prefix "bar_"
570 %token <ival> FOO %token <ival> FOO
571 %union { int ival; } %union { int ival; }
572 %% %%
573 exp: 'a'; exp: 'a';
574
575 bison generates:
576
577 #ifndef BAR_FOO_H #ifndef BAR_FOO_H
578 # define BAR_FOO_H # define BAR_FOO_H
579
580 /* Enabling traces. */ /* Enabling traces. */
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581 # ifndef YYDEBUG | # ifndef BAR_DEBUG
582 > # if defined YYDEBUG
583 > # if YYDEBUG
584 > # define BAR_DEBUG 1
585 > # else
586 > # define BAR_DEBUG 0
587 > # endif
588 > # else
589 # define YYDEBUG 0 | # define BAR_DEBUG 0
590 > # endif
591 # endif | # endif
592
593 # if YYDEBUG | # if BAR_DEBUG
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595 # endif # endif
596
597 /* Tokens. */ /* Tokens. */
598 # ifndef YYTOKENTYPE | # ifndef BAR_TOKENTYPE
599 # define YYTOKENTYPE | # define BAR_TOKENTYPE
600 enum yytokentype { | enum bar_tokentype {
601 FOO = 258 FOO = 258
602 }; };
603 # endif # endif
604
605 #if ! defined YYSTYPE \ | #if ! defined BAR_STYPE \
606 && ! defined YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED | && ! defined BAR_STYPE_IS_DECLARED
607 typedef union YYSTYPE | typedef union BAR_STYPE
608 { {
609 int ival; int ival;
610 } YYSTYPE; | } BAR_STYPE;
611 # define YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED 1 | # define BAR_STYPE_IS_DECLARED 1
612 #endif #endif
613
614 extern YYSTYPE bar_lval; | extern BAR_STYPE bar_lval;
615
616 int bar_parse (void); int bar_parse (void);
617
618 #endif /* !BAR_FOO_H */ #endif /* !BAR_FOO_H */
619
dfaac272 620* Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.1 (2012-06-05) [stable]
df6e3db0 621
debe2c03 622** Future changes:
765e1bd4 623
e4ab1254 624 The next major release will drop support for generating parsers in K&R C.
041308d0 625
466b4cf2 626** yacc.c: YYBACKUP works as expected.
ef51bfa7 627
d834eca0 628** glr.c improvements:
041308d0 629
d834eca0 630*** Location support is eliminated when not requested:
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633 not requested, and therefore not even usable.
378e917c 634
d834eca0 635*** __attribute__ is preserved:
d115aad9 636
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638 when -std is passed to GCC).
041308d0 639
466b4cf2 640** lalr1.java: several fixes:
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643 first token leads to a syntax error. Some minor clean ups.
041308d0 644
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22172d47 647*** C++11 compatibility:
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650 or higher.
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653
654 The header files such as "parser.hh", "location.hh", etc. used a constant
655 name for preprocessor guards, for instance:
656
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658 # define BISON_LOCATION_HH
659 ...
660 #endif // !BISON_LOCATION_HH
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662 The inclusion guard is now computed from "PREFIX/FILE-NAME", where lower
663 case characters are converted to upper case, and series of
664 non-alphanumerical characters are converted to an underscore.
665
666 With "bison -o lang++/parser.cc", "location.hh" would now include:
667
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669 # define YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
670 ...
671 #endif // !YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
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673*** C++ locations:
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676 accept new arguments for line and column. Several issues in the
677 documentation were fixed.
936c88d1 678
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680
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682
683*** %printer is documented
684
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686 documented. The "mfcalc" example is extended to demonstrate it.
7e508a2b 687
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689 "yyoutput" (as an alias to "debug_stream ()").
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691*** Several improvements have been made:
466b4cf2 692
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694 Named references are motivated. The description of the automaton
695 description file (*.output) is updated to the current format. Incorrect
696 index entries were fixed. Some other errors were fixed.
466b4cf2 697
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699
700*** Conflicting prototypes with recent/modified Flex.
466b4cf2 701
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703 some modified versions of 2.5.35, which have modified function prototypes.
466b4cf2 704
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706
707*** Several portability problems in the test suite have been fixed:
466b4cf2 708
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710 such as diff, warning messages from the test suite itself, etc.
466b4cf2 711
91aadcc7 712*** The install-pdf target works properly:
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715 halts in the middle of its course.
8ef26c2a 716
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720
721 Consistently with directives (such as %error-verbose) and with
722 %define variables (e.g. push-pull), grammar symbol names may contain
723 dashes in any position except the beginning. This is a GNU
724 extension over POSIX Yacc. Thus, use of this extension is reported
725 by -Wyacc and rejected in Yacc mode (--yacc).
726
f1b238df 727** Named references:
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729 Historically, Yacc and Bison have supported positional references
730 ($n, $$) to allow access to symbol values from inside of semantic
731 actions code.
732
733 Starting from this version, Bison can also accept named references.
734 When no ambiguity is possible, original symbol names may be used
735 as named references:
736
4b568fc0 737 if_stmt : "if" cond_expr "then" then_stmt ';'
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739
740 In the more common case, explicit names may be declared:
741
4b568fc0 742 stmt[res] : "if" expr[cond] "then" stmt[then] "else" stmt[else] ';'
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744
5b1ff423 745 Location information is also accessible using @name syntax. When
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747 ($[sym.1]) must be used.
748
5b1ff423 749 These features are experimental in this version. More user feedback
66381412 750 will help to stabilize them.
2bd435c3 751 Contributed by Alex Rozenman.
66381412 752
f1b238df 753** IELR(1) and canonical LR(1):
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755 IELR(1) is a minimal LR(1) parser table generation algorithm. That
756 is, given any context-free grammar, IELR(1) generates parser tables
7262f54f 757 with the full language-recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
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759 in parser states is often an order of magnitude. More importantly,
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761 conflicts in the case of non-LR(1) grammars, the number of conflicts
762 for IELR(1) is often an order of magnitude less as well. This can
763 significantly reduce the complexity of developing of a grammar.
764
765 Bison can now generate IELR(1) and canonical LR(1) parser tables in
766 place of its traditional LALR(1) parser tables, which remain the
767 default. You can specify the type of parser tables in the grammar
768 file with these directives:
769
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771 %define lr.type ielr
772 %define lr.type canonical-lr
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776 of these features, see the new section "Tuning LR" in the Bison
7fceb615 777 manual.
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779 These features are experimental. More user feedback will help to
780 stabilize them.
781
7fceb615 782** LAC (Lookahead Correction) for syntax error handling:
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784 Canonical LR, IELR, and LALR can suffer from a couple of problems
785 upon encountering a syntax error. First, the parser might perform
786 additional parser stack reductions before discovering the syntax
7fceb615 787 error. Such reductions can perform user semantic actions that are
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789 cause error recovery to begin in a different syntactic context than
790 the one in which the invalid token was encountered. Second, when
7fceb615 791 verbose error messages are enabled (with %error-verbose or the
e4ab1254 792 obsolete "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE"), the expected token list in the
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794 tokens.
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796 The culprits for the above problems are %nonassoc, default
797 reductions in inconsistent states, and parser state merging. Thus,
798 IELR and LALR suffer the most. Canonical LR can suffer only if
799 %nonassoc is used or if default reductions are enabled for
800 inconsistent states.
801
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803 these problems for canonical LR, IELR, and LALR without sacrificing
804 %nonassoc, default reductions, or state merging. When LAC is in
805 use, canonical LR and IELR behave almost exactly the same for both
806 syntactically acceptable and syntactically unacceptable input.
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808 power of canonical LR and IELR, LAC at least enables LALR's syntax
809 error handling to correctly reflect LALR's language-recognition
810 power.
811
812 Currently, LAC is only supported for deterministic parsers in C.
813 You can enable LAC with the following directive:
814
815 %define parse.lac full
816
e4ab1254 817 See the new section "LAC" in the Bison manual for additional
7fceb615 818 details including a few caveats.
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820 LAC is an experimental feature. More user feedback will help to
821 stabilize it.
822
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f1b238df 825*** Can now be invoked via the command line:
50cca368 826
de5ab940 827 Each of these command-line options
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830 --define=NAME[=VALUE]
831
832 -F NAME[=VALUE]
833 --force-define=NAME[=VALUE]
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835 is equivalent to this grammar file declaration
836
de5ab940 837 %define NAME ["VALUE"]
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840 for the same NAME differs. Most importantly, -F and --force-define
841 quietly override %define, but -D and --define do not. For further
e4ab1254 842 details, see the section "Bison Options" in the Bison manual.
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f1b238df 844*** Variables renamed:
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846 The following %define variables
847
848 api.push_pull
849 lr.keep_unreachable_states
850
851 have been renamed to
852
853 api.push-pull
854 lr.keep-unreachable-states
855
856 The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely
857 for backward compatibility.
858
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861 If a %define value is an identifier, it no longer needs to be placed
862 within quotations marks. For example,
863
864 %define api.push-pull "push"
865
866 can be rewritten as
867
868 %define api.push-pull push
869
d397d9f0 870*** Unrecognized variables are now errors not warnings.
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873
874** Unrecognized %code qualifiers are now errors not warnings.
875
876** Character literals not of length one:
877
878 Previously, Bison quietly converted all character literals to length
879 one. For example, without warning, Bison interpreted the operators in
880 the following grammar to be the same token:
881
882 exp: exp '++'
883 | exp '+' exp
884 ;
885
886 Bison now warns when a character literal is not of length one. In
887 some future release, Bison will start reporting an error instead.
888
889** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions:
890
891 Previously for deterministic parsers in C, if a user semantic action
892 altered yychar, the parser in some cases used the old yychar value to
893 determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax
894 error or upon parser return. This bug has been fixed.
895
896** C++ parsers use YYRHSLOC:
897
898 Similarly to the C parsers, the C++ parsers now define the YYRHSLOC
899 macro and use it in the default YYLLOC_DEFAULT. You are encouraged
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901 and "last" members, instead of
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904 do \
905 if (N) \
906 { \
907 (Current).first = (Rhs)[1].location.first; \
908 (Current).last = (Rhs)[N].location.last; \
909 } \
910 else \
911 { \
912 (Current).first = (Current).last = (Rhs)[0].location.last; \
913 } \
914 while (false)
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916 use:
917
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919 do \
920 if (N) \
921 { \
922 (Current).first = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 1).first; \
923 (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, N).last; \
924 } \
925 else \
926 { \
927 (Current).first = (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 0).last; \
928 } \
929 while (false)
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931** YYLLOC_DEFAULT in C++:
932
933 The default implementation of YYLLOC_DEFAULT used to be issued in
934 the header file. It is now output in the implementation file, after
935 the user %code sections so that its #ifndef guard does not try to
936 override the user's YYLLOC_DEFAULT if provided.
cdf3f113 937
f1b238df 938** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it:
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940 YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
941 deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. More recently, it was
942 a documented feature of Bison's experimental Java parsers. As
943 promised in Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, any appearance of YYFAIL in a
944 semantic action now produces a deprecation warning, and Java parsers
945 no longer implement YYFAIL at all. For further details, including a
946 discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL
947 being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry.
948
f1b238df 949** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action:
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951 Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for
952 reductions when the output language defaulted to C (specifically, when
953 neither %yacc, %language, %skeleton, or equivalent command-line
954 options were specified). This allowed actions such as
955
956 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
957
958 instead of
959
960 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
961
962 As a first step in removing this misfeature, Bison now issues a
963 warning when it appends a semicolon. Moreover, in cases where Bison
964 cannot easily determine whether a semicolon is needed (for example, an
965 action ending with a cpp directive or a braced compound initializer),
966 it no longer appends one. Thus, the C compiler might now complain
967 about a missing semicolon where it did not before. Future releases of
968 Bison will cease to append semicolons entirely.
969
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971
e4ab1254 972 When %error-verbose or the obsolete "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE" is
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974 include the unexpected token as well as a list of expected tokens.
975 The effect of %nonassoc on these verbose messages has been corrected
976 in two ways, but a more complete fix requires LAC, described above:
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978*** When %nonassoc is used, there can exist parser states that accept no
979 tokens, and so the parser does not always require a lookahead token
980 in order to detect a syntax error. Because no unexpected token or
981 expected tokens can then be reported, the verbose syntax error
982 message described above is suppressed, and the parser instead
e4ab1254 983 reports the simpler message, "syntax error". Previously, this
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985 lookahead was actually required. Now verbose messages are
986 suppressed only when all previous lookaheads have already been
987 shifted or discarded.
988
989*** Previously, the list of expected tokens erroneously included tokens
990 that would actually induce a syntax error because conflicts for them
991 were resolved with %nonassoc in the current parser state. Such
992 tokens are now properly omitted from the list.
993
994*** Expected token lists are still often wrong due to state merging
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996 invalid tokens and subtract valid tokens. Canonical LR almost
997 completely fixes this problem by eliminating state merging and
998 default reductions. However, there is one minor problem left even
999 when using canonical LR and even after the fixes above. That is,
1000 if the resolution of a conflict with %nonassoc appears in a later
1001 parser state than the one at which some syntax error is
1002 discovered, the conflicted token is still erroneously included in
1003 the expected token list. Bison's new LAC implementation,
1004 described above, eliminates this problem and the need for
1005 canonical LR. However, LAC is still experimental and is disabled
1006 by default.
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1009
1010*** A location handling bug has been fixed.
1011
1012*** The top element of each of the value stack and location stack is now
1013 cleared when popped so that it can be garbage collected.
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1016
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1018
e4ab1254 1019*** Bison now properly recognizes the "no-" versions of categories:
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1021 For example, given the following command line, Bison now enables all
1022 warnings except warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
1023
1024 bison -Wall,no-yacc gram.y
1025
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1027
1028 Previously, conflict reports were independent of Bison's normal
1029 warning system. Now, Bison recognizes the warning categories
e4ab1254 1030 "conflicts-sr" and "conflicts-rr". This change has important
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1032 example:
1033
1034 bison -Wno-conflicts-sr gram.y # S/R conflicts not reported
1035 bison -Wno-conflicts-rr gram.y # R/R conflicts not reported
1036 bison -Wnone gram.y # no conflicts are reported
1037 bison -Werror gram.y # any conflict is an error
1038
1039 However, as before, if the %expect or %expect-rr directive is
1040 specified, an unexpected number of conflicts is an error, and an
1041 expected number of conflicts is not reported, so -W and --warning
1042 then have no effect on the conflict report.
1043
e4ab1254 1044*** The "none" category no longer disables a preceding "error":
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1046 For example, for the following command line, Bison now reports
1047 errors instead of warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
1048
1049 bison -Werror,none,yacc gram.y
1050
e4ab1254 1051*** The "none" category now disables all Bison warnings:
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e4ab1254 1053 Previously, the "none" category disabled only Bison warnings for
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1055 given the following command line, Bison is now guaranteed to
1056 suppress all warnings:
1057
1058 bison -Wnone gram.y
1059
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1061
1062 Since Bison 2.3b, which restored the ability of precedence
1063 directives to assign token numbers, doing so for token number 0 has
1064 produced an assertion failure. For example:
1065
1066 %left END 0
1067
1068 This bug has been fixed.
1069
64877e5e 1070* Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
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1073 grammar rules that are useless in the parser due to conflicts.
1074
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1076 been fixed.
1077
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1079
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1081 been fixed.
1082
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1084 warnings about undefined %prec identifiers will not be converted to
1085 errors in Bison 2.5. They will remain warnings, which should be
1086 sufficient for POSIX while avoiding backward compatibility issues.
1087
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1089
e19a049c 1090* Changes in version 2.4.2 (2010-03-20):
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1093 in the test suite on some versions of at least Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
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1095 errors should no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
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1097
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1100 POSIX specifies that an error be reported for any identifier that does
1101 not appear on the LHS of a grammar rule and that is not defined by
1102 %token, %left, %right, or %nonassoc. Bison 2.3b and later lost this
1103 error report for the case when an identifier appears only after a
1104 %prec directive. It is now restored. However, for backward
1105 compatibility with recent Bison releases, it is only a warning for
1106 now. In Bison 2.5 and later, it will return to being an error.
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1108 warning will not be converted to an error in Bison 2.5.]
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1111
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1113 YYLTYPE_IS_TRIVIAL, and __STRICT_ANSI__ in C/C++ parsers are now
1114 avoided.
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1117
1118 A traditional Yacc prologue directive is written in the form:
1119
1120 %{CODE%}
1121
1122 To provide a more flexible alternative, Bison 2.3b introduced the
1123 %code directive with the following forms for C/C++:
1124
1125 %code {CODE}
1126 %code requires {CODE}
1127 %code provides {CODE}
1128 %code top {CODE}
1129
1130 These forms are now considered permanent features of Bison. See the
1131 %code entries in the section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
1132 manual for a summary of their functionality. See the section
1133 "Prologue Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the
1134 advantages of %code over the traditional Yacc prologue directive.
1135
1136 Bison's Java feature as a whole including its current usage of %code
1137 is still considered experimental.
1138
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1140
1141 YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
1142 deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. Previously, it was
1143 documented for Bison's experimental Java parsers. YYFAIL is no longer
1144 documented for Java parsers and is formally deprecated in both cases.
1145 Users are strongly encouraged to migrate to YYERROR, which is
1146 specified by POSIX.
1147
1148 Like YYERROR, you can invoke YYFAIL from a semantic action in order to
1149 induce a syntax error. The most obvious difference from YYERROR is
1150 that YYFAIL will automatically invoke yyerror to report the syntax
1151 error so that you don't have to. However, there are several other
1152 subtle differences between YYERROR and YYFAIL, and YYFAIL suffers from
e4ab1254 1153 inherent flaws when %error-verbose or "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE" is
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1155
1156 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-12/msg00024.html
1157
1158 The upcoming Bison 2.5 will remove YYFAIL from Java parsers, but
1159 deterministic parsers in C will continue to implement it. However,
1160 because YYFAIL is already flawed, it seems futile to try to make new
1161 Bison features compatible with it. Thus, during parser generation,
1162 Bison 2.5 will produce a warning whenever it discovers YYFAIL in a
1163 rule action. In a later release, YYFAIL will be disabled for
e4ab1254 1164 %error-verbose and "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE". Eventually, YYFAIL will
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1166
1167 There exists at least one case where Bison 2.5's YYFAIL warning will
1168 be a false positive. Some projects add phony uses of YYFAIL and other
1169 Bison-defined macros for the sole purpose of suppressing C
1170 preprocessor warnings (from GCC cpp's -Wunused-macros, for example).
1171 To avoid Bison's future warning, such YYFAIL uses can be moved to the
e4ab1254 1172 epilogue (that is, after the second "%%") in the Bison input file. In
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1174 C preprocessor warnings for YYFAIL, so projects can remove their own
1175 phony uses of YYFAIL if compatibility with Bison releases prior to
1176 2.4.2 is not necessary.
1177
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1179
1180 Fix a regression introduced in Bison 2.4: Under some circumstances,
1181 message translations were not installed although supported by the
1182 host system.
1183
74553c98 1184* Changes in version 2.4.1 (2008-12-11):
c9ba9e59 1185
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1187 declarations have been fixed.
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1190
1191 Bison used to prepend a trailing semicolon at the end of the user
1192 action for reductions. This allowed actions such as
1193
1194 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
1195
1196 instead of
1197
1198 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
1199
e4ab1254 1200 Some grammars still depend on this "feature". Bison 2.4.1 restores
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1202 neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options
1203 are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old
1204 behavior to be adjusted. Future releases of Bison will disable this
1205 feature.
1206
1207** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.
c9ba9e59 1208
402b123d 1209* Changes in version 2.4 (2008-11-02):
7bd1665a 1210
402b123d 1211** %language is an experimental feature.
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1213 We first introduced this feature in test release 2.3b as a cleaner
1214 alternative to %skeleton. Since then, we have discussed the possibility of
1215 modifying its effect on Bison's output file names. Thus, in this release,
1216 we consider %language to be an experimental feature that will likely evolve
1217 in future releases.
7bd1665a 1218
402b123d 1219** Forward compatibility with GNU M4 has been improved.
241fda7a 1220
402b123d 1221** Several bugs in the C++ skeleton and the experimental Java skeleton have been
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1222 fixed.
1223
402b123d 1224* Changes in version 2.3b (2008-05-27):
35fe0834 1225
402b123d 1226** The quotes around NAME that used to be required in the following directive
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1228
1229 %define NAME "VALUE"
1230
e4ab1254 1231** The directive "%pure-parser" is now deprecated in favor of:
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1233 %define api.pure
1234
1235 which has the same effect except that Bison is more careful to warn about
1236 unreasonable usage in the latter case.
1237
402b123d 1238** Push Parsing
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1240 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in C with a push interface. That
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1242 push one token at a time to the parser using "yypush_parse", which will
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1244 interface is disabled. Either of the following directives will enable it:
1245
1246 %define api.push_pull "push" // Just push; does not require yylex.
1247 %define api.push_pull "both" // Push and pull; requires yylex.
1248
e4ab1254 1249 See the new section "A Push Parser" in the Bison manual for details.
c373bf8b 1250
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1252 feedback will help to stabilize it.
1253
402b123d 1254** The -g and --graph options now output graphs in Graphviz DOT format,
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1255 not VCG format. Like --graph, -g now also takes an optional FILE argument
1256 and thus cannot be bundled with other short options.
c373bf8b 1257
402b123d 1258** Java
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1260 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in Java. The skeleton is
e4ab1254 1261 "data/lalr1.java". Consider using the new %language directive instead of
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1262 %skeleton to select it.
1263
e4ab1254 1264 See the new section "Java Parsers" in the Bison manual for details.
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1266 The current Java interface is experimental and may evolve. More user
1267 feedback will help to stabilize it.
2bd435c3 1268 Contributed by Paolo Bonzini.
59da312b 1269
402b123d 1270** %language
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1272 This new directive specifies the programming language of the generated
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1273 parser, which can be C (the default), C++, or Java. Besides the skeleton
1274 that Bison uses, the directive affects the names of the generated files if
1275 the grammar file's name ends in ".y".
59da312b 1276
402b123d 1277** XML Automaton Report
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1279 Bison can now generate an XML report of the LALR(1) automaton using the new
e4ab1254 1280 "--xml" option. The current XML schema is experimental and may evolve. More
59da312b 1281 user feedback will help to stabilize it.
2bd435c3 1282 Contributed by Wojciech Polak.
c373bf8b 1283
402b123d 1284** The grammar file may now specify the name of the parser header file using
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1285 %defines. For example:
1286
1287 %defines "parser.h"
1288
402b123d 1289** When reporting useless rules, useless nonterminals, and unused terminals,
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1291 "useless in parser" instead of "never reduced", and "unused in grammar"
1292 instead of "unused".
cff03fb2 1293
402b123d 1294** Unreachable State Removal
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1296 Previously, Bison sometimes generated parser tables containing unreachable
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1297 states. A state can become unreachable during conflict resolution if Bison
1298 disables a shift action leading to it from a predecessor state. Bison now:
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1300 1. Removes unreachable states.
1301
1302 2. Does not report any conflicts that appeared in unreachable states.
1303 WARNING: As a result, you may need to update %expect and %expect-rr
1304 directives in existing grammar files.
1305
1306 3. For any rule used only in such states, Bison now reports the rule as
cff03fb2 1307 "useless in parser due to conflicts".
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1310
1311 %define lr.keep_unreachable_states
1312
e4ab1254 1313 See the %define entry in the "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison manual
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1314 for further discussion.
1315
e4ab1254 1316** Lookahead Set Correction in the ".output" Report
b1cc23c4 1317
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1319 (using "--report=lookahead", for example), Bison now prints each reduction's
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1320 lookahead set only next to the associated state's one item that (1) is
1321 associated with the same rule as the reduction and (2) has its dot at the end
1322 of its RHS. Previously, Bison also erroneously printed the lookahead set
1323 next to all of the state's other items associated with the same rule. This
e4ab1254 1324 bug affected only the ".output" file and not the generated parser source
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1325 code.
1326
e4ab1254 1327** --report-file=FILE is a new option to override the default ".output" file
59da312b 1328 name.
1bb2bd75 1329
e4ab1254 1330** The "=" that used to be required in the following directives is now
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1332
1333 %file-prefix "parser"
1334 %name-prefix "c_"
1335 %output "parser.c"
1336
e4ab1254 1337** An Alternative to "%{...%}" -- "%code QUALIFIER {CODE}"
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1339 Bison 2.3a provided a new set of directives as a more flexible alternative to
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1340 the traditional Yacc prologue blocks. Those have now been consolidated into
1341 a single %code directive with an optional qualifier field, which identifies
1342 the purpose of the code and thus the location(s) where Bison should generate
1343 it:
1344
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1346 2. "%code requires {CODE}" replaces "%start-header {CODE}"
1347 3. "%code provides {CODE}" replaces "%end-header {CODE}"
1348 4. "%code top {CODE}" replaces "%before-header {CODE}"
8e0a5e9e 1349
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1351 manual for a summary of the new functionality. See the new section "Prologue
1352 Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the advantages of %code
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1353 over the traditional Yacc prologues.
1354
1355 The prologue alternatives are experimental. More user feedback will help to
1356 determine whether they should become permanent features.
1357
402b123d 1358** Revised warning: unset or unused mid-rule values
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1360 Since Bison 2.2, Bison has warned about mid-rule values that are set but not
1361 used within any of the actions of the parent rule. For example, Bison warns
1362 about unused $2 in:
1363
1364 exp: '1' { $$ = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $1 + $4; };
1365
1366 Now, Bison also warns about mid-rule values that are used but not set. For
1367 example, Bison warns about unset $$ in the mid-rule action in:
1368
1369 exp: '1' { $1 = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $2 + $4; };
1370
1371 However, Bison now disables both of these warnings by default since they
1372 sometimes prove to be false alarms in existing grammars employing the Yacc
1373 constructs $0 or $-N (where N is some positive integer).
1374
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1376 "-W", which is a synonym for "--warnings=all".
17bd8a73 1377
e4ab1254 1378** Default %destructor or %printer with "<*>" or "<>"
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1380 Bison now recognizes two separate kinds of default %destructor's and
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1381 %printer's:
1382
e4ab1254 1383 1. Place "<*>" in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
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1384 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols for which you have formally
1385 declared semantic type tags.
1386
e4ab1254 1387 2. Place "<>" in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
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1388 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols without declared semantic
1389 type tags.
1390
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1392 "<*>" and "<>" combined achieve the same effect with one exception: Bison no
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1393 longer applies any %destructor to a mid-rule value if that mid-rule value is
1394 not actually ever referenced using either $$ or $n in a semantic action.
1395
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1397 feedback will help to determine whether they should become permanent
1398 features.
1399
e4ab1254 1400 See the section "Freeing Discarded Symbols" in the Bison manual for further
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1401 details.
1402
402b123d 1403** %left, %right, and %nonassoc can now declare token numbers. This is required
e4ab1254 1404 by POSIX. However, see the end of section "Operator Precedence" in the Bison
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1405 manual for a caveat concerning the treatment of literal strings.
1406
402b123d 1407** The nonfunctional --no-parser, -n, and %no-parser options have been
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1408 completely removed from Bison.
1409
402b123d 1410* Changes in version 2.3a, 2006-09-13:
742e4900 1411
402b123d 1412** Instead of %union, you can define and use your own union type
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1414 Your YYSTYPE need not be a macro; it can be a typedef.
1415 This change is for compatibility with other Yacc implementations,
1416 and is required by POSIX.
1417
402b123d 1418** Locations columns and lines start at 1.
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1420
402b123d 1421** You may now declare per-type and default %destructor's and %printer's:
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1423 For example:
1424
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1426 %token <string> STRING1
1427 %token <string> STRING2
1428 %type <string> string1
1429 %type <string> string2
1430 %union { char character; }
1431 %token <character> CHR
1432 %type <character> chr
1433 %destructor { free ($$); } %symbol-default
1434 %destructor { free ($$); printf ("%d", @$.first_line); } STRING1 string1
1435 %destructor { } <character>
1436
1437 guarantees that, when the parser discards any user-defined symbol that has a
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1439 "free". However, when the parser discards a "STRING1" or a "string1", it
1440 also prints its line number to "stdout". It performs only the second
1441 "%destructor" in this case, so it invokes "free" only once.
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1444 %destructor's and %printer's were experimental, and they were rewritten in
1445 future versions.]
1446
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1448 "--yacc", or "%yacc"), Bison no longer generates #define statements for
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1449 associating token numbers with token names. Removing the #define statements
1450 helps to sanitize the global namespace during preprocessing, but POSIX Yacc
1451 requires them. Bison still generates an enum for token names in all cases.
1452
402b123d 1453** Handling of traditional Yacc prologue blocks is now more consistent but
34f98f46 1454 potentially incompatible with previous releases of Bison.
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1456 As before, you declare prologue blocks in your grammar file with the
e4ab1254 1457 "%{ ... %}" syntax. To generate the pre-prologue, Bison concatenates all
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1459 the post-prologue, Bison concatenates all prologue blocks that you've
ddc8ede1 1460 declared after the first %union.
9bc0dd67 1461
34f98f46 1462 Previous releases of Bison inserted the pre-prologue into both the header
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1464 latter case, Bison inserted it only into the code file. For parsers in C++,
1465 the point of insertion was before any token definitions (which associate
1466 token numbers with names). For parsers in C, the point of insertion was
1467 after the token definitions.
1468
1469 Now, Bison never inserts the pre-prologue into the header file. In the code
1470 file, it always inserts it before the token definitions.
1471
402b123d 1472** Bison now provides a more flexible alternative to the traditional Yacc
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1474 %after-header.
1475
1476 For example, the following declaration order in the grammar file reflects the
1477 order in which Bison will output these code blocks. However, you are free to
1478 declare these code blocks in your grammar file in whatever order is most
1479 convenient for you:
1480
1481 %before-header {
1482 /* Bison treats this block like a pre-prologue block: it inserts it into
1483 * the code file before the contents of the header file. It does *not*
1484 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to put
1485 * #include's that you want at the top of your code file. A common
e4ab1254 1486 * example is '#include "system.h"'. */
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1488 %start-header {
1489 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
1490 * In both files, the point of insertion is before any Bison-generated
1491 * token, semantic type, location type, and class definitions. This is a
1492 * good place to define %union dependencies, for example. */
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1494 %union {
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1496 * new %*-header blocks is not affected by their declaration position
1497 * relative to any %union in the grammar file. */
9bc0dd67 1498 }
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1500 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
1501 * In both files, the point of insertion is after the Bison-generated
1502 * definitions. This is a good place to declare or define public
1503 * functions or data structures that depend on the Bison-generated
1504 * definitions. */
9bc0dd67 1505 }
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1507 /* Bison treats this block like a post-prologue block: it inserts it into
1508 * the code file after the contents of the header file. It does *not*
1509 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to declare or
1510 * define internal functions or data structures that depend on the
1511 * Bison-generated definitions. */
1512 }
1513
1514 If you have multiple occurrences of any one of the above declarations, Bison
1515 will concatenate the contents in declaration order.
9bc0dd67 1516
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1518 alternatives were experimental, and they were rewritten in future versions.]
1519
e4ab1254 1520** The option "--report=look-ahead" has been changed to "--report=lookahead".
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1522 in a future release.
742e4900 1523
402b123d 1524* Changes in version 2.3, 2006-06-05:
4ad3ed84 1525
e4ab1254 1526** GLR grammars should now use "YYRECOVERING ()" instead of "YYRECOVERING",
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1527 for compatibility with LALR(1) grammars.
1528
402b123d 1529** It is now documented that any definition of YYSTYPE or YYLTYPE should
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1531
402b123d 1532* Changes in version 2.2, 2006-05-19:
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402b123d 1534** The distribution terms for all Bison-generated parsers now permit
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1535 using the parsers in nonfree programs. Previously, this permission
1536 was granted only for Bison-generated LALR(1) parsers in C.
5f4236a0 1537
402b123d 1538** %name-prefix changes the namespace name in C++ outputs.
aa08666d 1539
402b123d 1540** The C++ parsers export their token_type.
5f4236a0 1541
402b123d 1542** Bison now allows multiple %union declarations, and concatenates
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1544
402b123d 1545** New warning: unused values
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1546 Right-hand side symbols whose values are not used are reported,
1547 if the symbols have destructors. For instance:
affac613 1548
8f3596a6 1549 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; }
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1551 ;
affac613 1552
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1554 the second ($1 is copied to $$ by the default rule). This example
4e26c69e 1555 most likely contains three errors, and could be rewritten as:
affac613 1556
4e26c69e 1557 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp
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1559 | exp "+" exp
1560 { $$ = $1 ? $1 : $3; if ($1) free ($3); }
1561 ;
affac613 1562
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1564 and all, the warnings can be suppressed by letting Bison believe the
1565 values are used, e.g.:
721be13c 1566
8f3596a6 1567 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; (void) ($$, $5); }
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1569 ;
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1572 uses it. The following triggers no warning: $1 and $3 are used.
1573
1574 exp: exp { push ($1); } '+' exp { push ($3); sum (); };
1575
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1577 If a value is ignored, its associated memory typically is not reclaimed.
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402b123d 1579** %destructor vs. YYABORT, YYACCEPT, and YYERROR.
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1581 and YYERROR, for all objects on the stack, other than objects
1582 corresponding to the right-hand side of the current rule.
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402b123d 1584** %expect, %expect-rr
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1586 instead of warnings.
1587
402b123d 1588** GLR, YACC parsers.
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1590 experimental printers) as per the documentation.
4b367315 1591
e4ab1254 1592** Bison now warns if it finds a stray "$" or "@" in an action.
ad6a9b97 1593
402b123d 1594** %require "VERSION"
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1596 in Bison version VERSION or higher.
b50d2359 1597
402b123d 1598** lalr1.cc: The token and value types are now class members.
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1600 was defined as a free form union. They are now class members:
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1602 semantic values have the "yy::parser::semantic_type" type.
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1604 If you do not want or can update to this scheme, the directive
e4ab1254 1605 '%define "global_tokens_and_yystype" "1"' triggers the global
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1607 for previous releases of Bison, and this one.
fb9712a9 1608
b50d2359 1609 If you wish to update, then make sure older version of Bison will
e4ab1254 1610 fail using '%require "2.2"'.
fb9712a9 1611
402b123d 1612** DJGPP support added.
193d7c70 1613\f
402b123d 1614* Changes in version 2.1, 2005-09-16:
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402b123d 1616** The C++ lalr1.cc skeleton supports %lex-param.
e14d0ab6 1617
402b123d 1618** Bison-generated parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like
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1620 language is still English. For details, please see the new
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1621 Internationalization section of the Bison manual. Software
1622 distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file. Thanks to
1623 Bruno Haible for this new feature.
1ce59070 1624
402b123d 1625** Wording in the Bison-generated parsers has been changed slightly to
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1626 simplify translation. In particular, the message "memory exhausted"
1627 has replaced "parser stack overflow", as the old message was not
1628 always accurate for modern Bison-generated parsers.
1629
402b123d 1630** Destructors are now called when the parser aborts, for all symbols left
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1631 behind on the stack. Also, the start symbol is now destroyed after a
1632 successful parse. In both cases, the behavior was formerly inconsistent.
1633
402b123d 1634** When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated parsers no longer
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1635 quote the literal strings associated with tokens. For example, for
1636 a syntax error associated with '%token NUM "number"' they might
1637 print 'syntax error, unexpected number' instead of 'syntax error,
1638 unexpected "number"'.
193d7c70 1639\f
402b123d 1640* Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25:
efeed023 1641
402b123d 1642** Possibly-incompatible changes
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1644 - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
1645 (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
1646 problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection. You can "#define
1647 YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read
1648 the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.
8dd162d3 1649
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1650 - Error token location.
1651 During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
1652 to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
1653 the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
1654 recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
18d192f0 1655
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1656 - Semicolon changes:
1657 . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
1658 . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
e342c3be 1659
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1660 - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
1661 string literals. They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
1662 dropped support for them. Better diagnostics are now generated if
1663 forget a closing quote.
8dd162d3 1664
82de6b0d 1665 - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
f74b6f91 1666
402b123d 1667** New features
1452af69 1668
82de6b0d 1669 - GLR grammars now support locations.
4febdd96 1670
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1671 - New directive: %initial-action.
1672 This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
1673 initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
1452af69 1674
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1675 - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
1676 reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.
1452af69 1677
e4ab1254 1678 - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., "%token FOO 0x12d".
82de6b0d 1679 This is a GNU extension.
4febdd96 1680
e4ab1254 1681 - The option "--report=lookahead" was changed to "--report=look-ahead".
9e6e7ed2 1682 [However, this was changed back after 2.3.]
1452af69 1683
82de6b0d 1684 - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
1452af69 1685
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1686 - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
1687 yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
6040d338 1688
402b123d 1689** Bug fixes
d5a3fe37 1690
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1691 - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
1692 This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
1693 reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
1694 are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts). However, in future
1695 versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
1696 these violations will become errors again.
3473d0f8 1697
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1698 - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer
1699 arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
d600ee67 1700
82de6b0d 1701 - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
d600ee67 1702\f
402b123d 1703* Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01:
963fcc17 1704
402b123d 1705** The documentation license has been upgraded to version 1.2
dc546b0f 1706 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
75eb3bc4 1707
402b123d 1708** syntax error processing
75eb3bc4 1709
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1710 - In Yacc-style parsers YYLLOC_DEFAULT is now used to compute error
1711 locations too. This fixes bugs in error-location computation.
75eb3bc4 1712
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1713 - %destructor
1714 It is now possible to reclaim the memory associated to symbols
1715 discarded during error recovery. This feature is still experimental.
20daca06 1716
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1717 - %error-verbose
1718 This new directive is preferred over YYERROR_VERBOSE.
74724a70 1719
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1720 - #defining yyerror to steal internal variables is discouraged.
1721 It is not guaranteed to work forever.
d1de5372 1722
402b123d 1723** POSIX conformance
d1de5372 1724
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1725 - Semicolons are once again optional at the end of grammar rules.
1726 This reverts to the behavior of Bison 1.33 and earlier, and improves
1727 compatibility with Yacc.
74724a70 1728
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1730 Bison now uniformly uses the term "syntax error"; formerly, the code
1731 and manual sometimes used the term "parse error" instead. POSIX
1732 requires "syntax error" in diagnostics, and it was thought better to
dc546b0f 1733 be consistent.
74724a70 1734
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1735 - The documentation now emphasizes that yylex and yyerror must be
1736 declared before use. C99 requires this.
d1de5372 1737
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1738 - Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like UCNs and
1739 backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires.
d1de5372 1740
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1741 - File names are properly escaped in C output. E.g., foo\bar.y is
1742 output as "foo\\bar.y".
6780ca7a 1743
dc546b0f 1744 - Yacc command and library now available
e4ab1254 1745 The Bison distribution now installs a "yacc" command, as POSIX requires.
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1746 Also, Bison now installs a small library liby.a containing
1747 implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions.
1748 This library is normally not useful, but POSIX requires it.
6e649e65 1749
dc546b0f 1750 - Type clashes now generate warnings, not errors.
6e649e65 1751
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1752 - If the user does not define YYSTYPE as a macro, Bison now declares it
1753 using typedef instead of defining it as a macro.
1754 For consistency, YYLTYPE is also declared instead of defined.
9501dc6e 1755
402b123d 1756** Other compatibility issues
886a425c 1757
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1758 - %union directives can now have a tag before the "{", e.g., the
1759 directive "%union foo {...}" now generates the C code
1760 "typedef union foo { ... } YYSTYPE;"; this is for Yacc compatibility.
1761 The default union tag is "YYSTYPE", for compatibility with Solaris 9 Yacc.
1762 For consistency, YYLTYPE's struct tag is now "YYLTYPE" not "yyltype".
dc546b0f 1763 This is for compatibility with both Yacc and Bison 1.35.
72f889cc 1764
e4ab1254 1765 - ";" is output before the terminating "}" of an action, for
dc546b0f 1766 compatibility with Bison 1.35.
886a425c 1767
dc546b0f 1768 - Bison now uses a Yacc-style format for conflict reports, e.g.,
e4ab1254 1769 "conflicts: 2 shift/reduce, 1 reduce/reduce".
437c2d80 1770
e4ab1254 1771 - "yystype" and "yyltype" are now obsolescent macros instead of being
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1773 withdrawn in a future release.
2a8d363a 1774
402b123d 1775** GLR parser notes
2a8d363a 1776
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1777 - GLR and inline
1778 Users of Bison have to decide how they handle the portability of the
e4ab1254 1779 C keyword "inline".
959e5f51 1780
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1781 - "parsing stack overflow..." -> "parser stack overflow"
1782 GLR parsers now report "parser stack overflow" as per the Bison manual.
900c5db5 1783
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1785 The macros YYPARSE_PARAM and YYLEX_PARAM provide a means to pass
1786 additional context to yyparse and yylex. They suffer from several
1787 shortcomings:
1788
1789 - a single argument only can be added,
1790 - their types are weak (void *),
242cc08e 1791 - this context is not passed to ancillary functions such as yyerror,
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1793
1794 The new %parse-param/%lex-param directives provide a more precise control.
1795 For instance:
1796
1797 %parse-param {int *nastiness}
1798 %lex-param {int *nastiness}
1799 %parse-param {int *randomness}
1800
1801 results in the following signatures:
1802
1803 int yylex (int *nastiness);
1804 int yyparse (int *nastiness, int *randomness);
1805
1806 or, if both %pure-parser and %locations are used:
1807
1808 int yylex (YYSTYPE *lvalp, YYLTYPE *llocp, int *nastiness);
1809 int yyparse (int *nastiness, int *randomness);
1810
402b123d 1811** Bison now warns if it detects conflicting outputs to the same file,
e4ab1254 1812 e.g., it generates a warning for "bison -d -o foo.h foo.y" since
dc546b0f 1813 that command outputs both code and header to foo.h.
6e40b4eb 1814
402b123d 1815** #line in output files
dc546b0f 1816 - --no-line works properly.
6e40b4eb 1817
402b123d 1818** Bison can no longer be built by a K&R C compiler; it requires C89 or
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1819 later to be built. This change originally took place a few versions
1820 ago, but nobody noticed until we recently asked someone to try
1821 building Bison with a K&R C compiler.
d600ee67 1822\f
402b123d 1823* Changes in version 1.75, 2002-10-14:
7933f2b5 1824
402b123d 1825** Bison should now work on 64-bit hosts.
7933f2b5 1826
402b123d 1827** Indonesian translation thanks to Tedi Heriyanto.
7933f2b5 1828
402b123d 1829** GLR parsers
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1830 Fix spurious parse errors.
1831
402b123d 1832** Pure parsers
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1833 Some people redefine yyerror to steal yyparse' private variables.
1834 Reenable this trick until an official feature replaces it.
1835
402b123d 1836** Type Clashes
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1837 In agreement with POSIX and with other Yaccs, leaving a default
1838 action is valid when $$ is untyped, and $1 typed:
1839
e9690142 1840 untyped: ... typed;
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1842 but the converse remains an error:
1843
e9690142 1844 typed: ... untyped;
d90c934c 1845
402b123d 1846** Values of mid-rule actions
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1847 The following code:
1848
e9690142 1849 foo: { ... } { $$ = $1; } ...
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1851 was incorrectly rejected: $1 is defined in the second mid-rule
1852 action, and is equal to the $$ of the first mid-rule action.
d600ee67 1853\f
402b123d 1854* Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04:
adc8c848 1855
402b123d 1856** GLR parsing
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1858 %glr-parser
1859 causes Bison to produce a Generalized LR (GLR) parser, capable of handling
1860 almost any context-free grammar, ambiguous or not. The new declarations
e8832397 1861 %dprec and %merge on grammar rules allow parse-time resolution of
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1862 ambiguities. Contributed by Paul Hilfinger.
1863
7933f2b5 1864 Unfortunately Bison 1.50 does not work properly on 64-bit hosts
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1866
402b123d 1867** Output Directory
8c165d89 1868 When not in Yacc compatibility mode, when the output file was not
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1870 now creates "bar.c".
8c165d89 1871
402b123d 1872** Undefined token
007a50a4 1873 The undefined token was systematically mapped to 2 which prevented
e88dbdbf 1874 the use of 2 by the user. This is no longer the case.
007a50a4 1875
402b123d 1876** Unknown token numbers
e88dbdbf 1877 If yylex returned an out of range value, yyparse could die. This is
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1879
402b123d 1880** Error token
e88dbdbf 1881 According to POSIX, the error token must be 256.
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1882 Bison extends this requirement by making it a preference: *if* the
1883 user specified that one of her tokens is numbered 256, then error
1884 will be mapped onto another number.
1885
402b123d 1886** Verbose error messages
e4ab1254 1887 They no longer report "..., expecting error or..." for states where
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1888 error recovery is possible.
1889
402b123d 1890** End token
e4ab1254 1891 Defaults to "$end" instead of "$".
217598da 1892
402b123d 1893** Error recovery now conforms to documentation and to POSIX
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1894 When a Bison-generated parser encounters a syntax error, it now pops
1895 the stack until it finds a state that allows shifting the error
1896 token. Formerly, it popped the stack until it found a state that
1897 allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the
1898 error token. The new behavior has long been the documented behavior,
1899 and has long been required by POSIX. For more details, please see
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1900 Paul Eggert, "Reductions during Bison error handling" (2002-05-20)
1901 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2002-05/msg00038.html>.
68cd8af3 1902
402b123d 1903** Traces
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1904 Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.
1905
402b123d 1906** Larger grammars
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1907 Larger grammars are now supported (larger token numbers, larger grammar
1908 size (= sum of the LHS and RHS lengths), larger LALR tables).
1909 Formerly, many of these numbers ran afoul of 16-bit limits;
1910 now these limits are 32 bits on most hosts.
355e7c1c 1911
402b123d 1912** Explicit initial rule
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1913 Bison used to play hacks with the initial rule, which the user does
1914 not write. It is now explicit, and visible in the reports and
1915 graphs as rule 0.
23c5a174 1916
402b123d 1917** Useless rules
643a5994 1918 Before, Bison reported the useless rules, but, although not used,
77714df2 1919 included them in the parsers. They are now actually removed.
23c5a174 1920
402b123d 1921** Useless rules, useless nonterminals
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1922 They are now reported, as a warning, with their locations.
1923
402b123d 1924** Rules never reduced
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1925 Rules that can never be reduced because of conflicts are now
1926 reported.
1927
e4ab1254 1928** Incorrect "Token not used"
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1929 On a grammar such as
1930
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1932 %%
1933 exp: '0' %prec useful;
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1935 where a token was used to set the precedence of the last rule,
e4ab1254 1936 bison reported both "useful" and "useless" as useless tokens.
11652ab3 1937
402b123d 1938** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31
77714df2 1939 as they caused too many portability hassles.
0179dd65 1940
402b123d 1941** Default locations
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1942 By an accident of design, the default computation of @$ was
1943 performed after another default computation was performed: @$ = @1.
1944 The latter is now removed: YYLLOC_DEFAULT is fully responsible of
1945 the computation of @$.
adc8c848 1946
402b123d 1947** Token end-of-file
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1948 The token end of file may be specified by the user, in which case,
1949 the user symbol is used in the reports, the graphs, and the verbose
e4ab1254 1950 error messages instead of "$end", which remains being the default.
b7c49edf 1951 For instance
e29f0771 1952 %token MYEOF 0
b7c49edf 1953 or
e29f0771 1954 %token MYEOF 0 "end of file"
fdbcd8e2 1955
402b123d 1956** Semantic parser
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1957 This old option, which has been broken for ages, is removed.
1958
402b123d 1959** New translations
a861a339 1960 Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Alexandre Folle de Menezes.
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1961 Croatian, thanks to Denis Lackovic.
1962
402b123d 1963** Incorrect token definitions
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1964 When given
1965 %token 'a' "A"
1966 bison used to output
1967 #define 'a' 65
b87f8b21 1968
402b123d 1969** Token definitions as enums
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1970 Tokens are output both as the traditional #define's, and, provided
1971 the compiler supports ANSI C or is a C++ compiler, as enums.
e88dbdbf 1972 This lets debuggers display names instead of integers.
77714df2 1973
402b123d 1974** Reports
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1975 In addition to --verbose, bison supports --report=THINGS, which
1976 produces additional information:
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1977 - itemset
1978 complete the core item sets with their closure
e4ab1254 1979 - lookahead [changed to "look-ahead" in 1.875e through 2.3, but changed back]
9e6e7ed2 1980 explicitly associate lookahead tokens to items
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1981 - solved
1982 describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
1983 Bison used to systematically output this information on top of
1984 the report. Solved conflicts are now attached to their states.
ec3bc396 1985
402b123d 1986** Type clashes
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1987 Previous versions don't complain when there is a type clash on
1988 the default action if the rule has a mid-rule action, such as in:
1989
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1990 %type <foo> bar
1991 %%
1992 bar: '0' {} '0';
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1994 This is fixed.
a861a339 1995
402b123d 1996** GNU M4 is now required when using Bison.
f987e9d2 1997\f
402b123d 1998* Changes in version 1.35, 2002-03-25:
76551463 1999
402b123d 2000** C Skeleton
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2001 Some projects use Bison's C parser with C++ compilers, and define
2002 YYSTYPE as a class. The recent adjustment of C parsers for data
2003 alignment and 64 bit architectures made this impossible.
2004
2005 Because for the time being no real solution for C++ parser
2006 generation exists, kludges were implemented in the parser to
2007 maintain this use. In the future, when Bison has C++ parsers, this
2008 kludge will be disabled.
2009
2010 This kludge also addresses some C++ problems when the stack was
2011 extended.
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402b123d 2013* Changes in version 1.34, 2002-03-12:
76551463 2014
402b123d 2015** File name clashes are detected
76551463 2016 $ bison foo.y -d -o foo.x
e4ab1254 2017 fatal error: header and parser would both be named "foo.x"
76551463 2018
e4ab1254 2019** A missing ";" at the end of a rule triggers a warning
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2020 In accordance with POSIX, and in agreement with other
2021 Yacc implementations, Bison will mandate this semicolon in the near
2022 future. This eases the implementation of a Bison parser of Bison
2023 grammars by making this grammar LALR(1) instead of LR(2). To
2024 facilitate the transition, this release introduces a warning.
2025
402b123d 2026** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31, as they caused too
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2028
402b123d 2029** DJGPP support added.
76551463 2030
402b123d 2031** Fix test suite portability problems.
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402b123d 2033* Changes in version 1.33, 2002-02-07:
76551463 2034
402b123d 2035** Fix C++ issues
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2036 Groff could not be compiled for the definition of size_t was lacking
2037 under some conditions.
2038
402b123d 2039** Catch invalid @n
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2040 As is done with $n.
2041\f
402b123d 2042* Changes in version 1.32, 2002-01-23:
76551463 2043
402b123d 2044** Fix Yacc output file names
76551463 2045
402b123d 2046** Portability fixes
76551463 2047
402b123d 2048** Italian, Dutch translations
76551463 2049\f
402b123d 2050* Changes in version 1.31, 2002-01-14:
52d1aeee 2051
402b123d 2052** Many Bug Fixes
52d1aeee 2053
402b123d 2054** GNU Gettext and %expect
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2055 GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
2056 Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
2057 too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
e4ab1254 2058 does not trigger an error when the input file is named "plural.y".
52d1aeee 2059
402b123d 2060** Use of alloca in parsers
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2061 If YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA is defined to 0, then the parsers will use
2062 malloc exclusively. Since 1.29, but was not NEWS'ed.
2063
2064 alloca is used only when compiled with GCC, to avoid portability
2065 problems as on AIX.
2066
402b123d 2067** yyparse now returns 2 if memory is exhausted; formerly it dumped core.
b47dbebe 2068
402b123d 2069** When the generated parser lacks debugging code, YYDEBUG is now 0
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2070 (as POSIX requires) instead of being undefined.
2071
402b123d 2072** User Actions
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2073 Bison has always permitted actions such as { $$ = $1 }: it adds the
2074 ending semicolon. Now if in Yacc compatibility mode, the semicolon
2075 is no longer output: one has to write { $$ = $1; }.
2076
402b123d 2077** Better C++ compliance
52d1aeee 2078 The output parsers try to respect C++ namespaces.
76551463 2079 [This turned out to be a failed experiment, and it was reverted later.]
52d1aeee 2080
402b123d 2081** Reduced Grammars
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2082 Fixed bugs when reporting useless nonterminals.
2083
402b123d 2084** 64 bit hosts
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2085 The parsers work properly on 64 bit hosts.
2086
402b123d 2087** Error messages
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2088 Some calls to strerror resulted in scrambled or missing error messages.
2089
402b123d 2090** %expect
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2091 When the number of shift/reduce conflicts is correct, don't issue
2092 any warning.
2093
402b123d 2094** The verbose report includes the rule line numbers.
52d1aeee 2095
402b123d 2096** Rule line numbers are fixed in traces.
52d1aeee 2097
402b123d 2098** Swedish translation
52d1aeee 2099
402b123d 2100** Parse errors
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2101 Verbose parse error messages from the parsers are better looking.
2102 Before: parse error: unexpected `'/'', expecting `"number"' or `'-'' or `'(''
2103 Now: parse error: unexpected '/', expecting "number" or '-' or '('
2104
402b123d 2105** Fixed parser memory leaks.
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2106 When the generated parser was using malloc to extend its stacks, the
2107 previous allocations were not freed.
2108
402b123d 2109** Fixed verbose output file.
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2110 Some newlines were missing.
2111 Some conflicts in state descriptions were missing.
2112
402b123d 2113** Fixed conflict report.
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2114 Option -v was needed to get the result.
2115
402b123d 2116** %expect
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2117 Was not used.
2118 Mismatches are errors, not warnings.
2119
402b123d 2120** Fixed incorrect processing of some invalid input.
52d1aeee 2121
402b123d 2122** Fixed CPP guards: 9foo.h uses BISON_9FOO_H instead of 9FOO_H.
52d1aeee 2123
402b123d 2124** Fixed some typos in the documentation.
52d1aeee 2125
402b123d 2126** %token MY_EOF 0 is supported.
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2127 Before, MY_EOF was silently renumbered as 257.
2128
402b123d 2129** doc/refcard.tex is updated.
52d1aeee 2130
402b123d 2131** %output, %file-prefix, %name-prefix.
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2132 New.
2133
402b123d 2134** --output
e4ab1254 2135 New, aliasing "--output-file".
52d1aeee 2136\f
402b123d 2137* Changes in version 1.30, 2001-10-26:
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2140 output file name. "-d" and "-g" do not change; they do not take any
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2142
e4ab1254 2143** "%source_extension" and "%header_extension" are removed, failed
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2144 experiment.
2145
402b123d 2146** Portability fixes.
f987e9d2 2147\f
402b123d 2148* Changes in version 1.29, 2001-09-07:
342b8b6e 2149
402b123d 2150** The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used
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2151 with common autoconfiguration schemes. If you still use ancient compilers
2152 that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option
e4ab1254 2153 "-Dconst=". Autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this.
342b8b6e 2154
e4ab1254 2155** Added "-g" and "--graph".
f87a2205 2156
402b123d 2157** The Bison manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
f2b5126e 2158
402b123d 2159** The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension.
234a3be3 2160
402b123d 2161** Russian translation added.
f87a2205 2162
402b123d 2163** NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
f87a2205 2164
402b123d 2165** Added the old Bison reference card.
c33638bb 2166
e4ab1254 2167** Added "--locations" and "%locations".
6deb4447 2168
e4ab1254 2169** Added "-S" and "--skeleton".
cd5bd6ac 2170
e4ab1254 2171** "%raw", "-r", "--raw" is disabled.
62ab6972 2172
402b123d 2173** Special characters are escaped when output. This solves the problems
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2174 of the #line lines with path names including backslashes.
2175
402b123d 2176** New directives.
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2177 "%yacc", "%fixed_output_files", "%defines", "%no_parser", "%verbose",
2178 "%debug", "%source_extension" and "%header_extension".
f987e9d2 2179
402b123d 2180** @$
f987e9d2 2181 Automatic location tracking.
f87a2205 2182\f
402b123d 2183* Changes in version 1.28, 1999-07-06:
d2e00347 2184
402b123d 2185** Should compile better now with K&R compilers.
d2e00347 2186
402b123d 2187** Added NLS.
d2e00347 2188
402b123d 2189** Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character.
d2e00347 2190
402b123d 2191** There is now a FAQ.
d2e00347 2192\f
402b123d 2193* Changes in version 1.27:
5c31c3c2 2194
402b123d 2195** The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on
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2196 some systems has been fixed.
2197\f
402b123d 2198* Changes in version 1.26:
4be07551 2199
7e508a2b 2200** Bison now uses Automake.
4be07551 2201
402b123d 2202** New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>.
4be07551 2203
402b123d 2204** Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258.
4be07551 2205
402b123d 2206** Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable.
4be07551 2207
402b123d 2208** A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed.
f51dbca1 2209
402b123d 2210** Problems when closing files should now be reported.
f51dbca1 2211
402b123d 2212** Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do
f51dbca1 2213 not provide alloca().
4be07551 2214\f
402b123d 2215* Changes in version 1.25, 1995-10-16:
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402b123d 2217** Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading
df8878c5 2218the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it.
8c44d3ec 2219
402b123d 2220** Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for
df8878c5 2221example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead
7e508a2b 2222of choosing a name like LESSEQ.
df8878c5 2223
402b123d 2224** The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names
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2225and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this
2226table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other
2227purposes.
2228
402b123d 2229** The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor
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2230directives in the parser file.
2231
402b123d 2232** The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not
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2233Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros.
2234
402b123d 2235** The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including
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2236the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine.
2237The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of
2238a switch statement body.
2239\f
402b123d 2240* Changes in version 1.23:
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2242The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be
2243passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should
2244actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable
2245by casting it to the proper pointer type.
6780ca7a 2246
6780ca7a 2247Line numbers in output file corrected.
6780ca7a 2248\f
402b123d 2249* Changes in version 1.22:
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2250
2251--help option added.
6780ca7a 2252\f
402b123d 2253* Changes in version 1.20:
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2254
2255Output file does not redefine const for C++.
9f4503d6 2256
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2258
34136e65 2259Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
76551463 2260
74553c98 2261This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.
76551463 2262
f16b0819 2263This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
76551463 2264it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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2265the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2266(at your option) any later version.
76551463 2267
f16b0819 2268This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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2269but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2270MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2271GNU General Public License for more details.
2272
2273You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
f16b0819 2274along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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2275
2276 LocalWords: yacc YYBACKUP glr GCC lalr ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException nullptr
2277 LocalWords: cplusplus liby rpl fprintf mfcalc Wyacc stmt cond expr mk sym lr
2278 LocalWords: IELR ielr Lookahead YYERROR nonassoc LALR's api lookaheads yychar
2279 LocalWords: destructor lookahead YYRHSLOC YYLLOC Rhs ifndef YYFAIL cpp sr rr
2280 LocalWords: preprocessor initializer Wno Wnone Werror FreeBSD prec livelocks
2281 LocalWords: Solaris AIX UX RHEL Tru LHS gcc's Wundef YYENABLE NLS YYLTYPE VCG
2282 LocalWords: yyerror cpp's Wunused yylval yylloc prepend yyparse yylex yypush
2283 LocalWords: Graphviz xml nonterminals midrule destructor's YYSTYPE typedef ly
2284 LocalWords: CHR chr printf stdout namespace preprocessing enum pre include's
2285 LocalWords: YYRECOVERING nonfree destructors YYABORT YYACCEPT params enums de
2286 LocalWords: struct yystype DJGPP lex param Haible NUM alloca YYSTACK NUL goto
2287 LocalWords: YYMAXDEPTH Unescaped UCNs YYLTYPE's yyltype typedefs inline Yaccs
2288 LocalWords: Heriyanto Reenable dprec Hilfinger Eggert MYEOF Folle Menezes EOF
242cc08e 2289 LocalWords: Lackovic define's itemset Groff Gettext malloc NEWS'ed YYDEBUG YY
7e508a2b 2290 LocalWords: namespaces strerror const autoconfiguration Dconst Autoconf's FDL
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2291 LocalWords: Automake TMPDIR LESSEQ ylwrap endif yydebug YYTOKEN YYLSP ival hh
2292 LocalWords: extern YYTOKENTYPE TOKENTYPE yytokentype tokentype STYPE lval pdf
dcb366b1 2293 LocalWords: lang yyoutput dvi html ps POSIX lvalp llocp Wother nterm arg init
d949eefd 2294 LocalWords: TOK calc yyo fval Wconflicts
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2295
2296Local Variables:
2297mode: outline
e4ab1254 2298fill-column: 76
7e508a2b 2299End: