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8c44d3ec 4Changes in version 1.28a:
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6* Russian translation added.
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8* NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
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10* Added the old Bison reference card.
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12* Added `--locations' and `%locations'.
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14* New directives.
15 `%yacc', `%fixed_output_files', `%defines', `%no_parser', `%verbose', and
16 `%debug'.
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18Changes in version 1.28:
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20* Should compile better now with K&R compilers.
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22* Added NLS.
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24* Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character.
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26* There is now a FAQ.
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28Changes in version 1.27:
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30* The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on
31 some systems has been fixed.
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33Changes in version 1.26:
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35* Bison now uses automake.
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37* New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>.
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39* Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258.
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41* Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable.
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43* A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed.
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45* Problems when closing files should now be reported.
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47* Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do
48 not provide alloca().
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5c31c3c2 50Changes in version 1.25:
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52* Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading
53the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it.
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55* Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for
56example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead
57of chosing a name like LESSEQ.
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59* The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names
60and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this
61table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other
62purposes.
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64* The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor
65directives in the parser file.
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67* The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not
68Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros.
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70* The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including
71the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine.
72The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of
73a switch statement body.
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75Changes in version 1.23:
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77The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be
78passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should
79actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable
80by casting it to the proper pointer type.
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6780ca7a 82Line numbers in output file corrected.
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84Changes in version 1.22:
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86--help option added.
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88Changes in version 1.20:
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90Output file does not redefine const for C++.