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4* Changes in version 2.5 (????-??-??):
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6** Grammar symbol names can now contain non-initial dashes:
7
8 Consistently with directives (such as %error-verbose) and with
9 %define variables (e.g. push-pull), grammar symbol names may contain
10 dashes in any position except the beginning. This is a GNU
11 extension over POSIX Yacc. Thus, use of this extension is reported
12 by -Wyacc and rejected in Yacc mode (--yacc).
13
14** Named references:
15
16 Historically, Yacc and Bison have supported positional references
17 ($n, $$) to allow access to symbol values from inside of semantic
18 actions code.
19
20 Starting from this version, Bison can also accept named references.
21 When no ambiguity is possible, original symbol names may be used
22 as named references:
23
24 if_stmt : 'if' cond_expr 'then' then_stmt ';'
25 { $if_stmt = mk_if_stmt($cond_expr, $then_stmt); }
26
27 In the more common case, explicit names may be declared:
28
29 stmt[res] : 'if' expr[cond] 'then' stmt[then] 'else' stmt[else] ';'
30 { $res = mk_if_stmt($cond, $then, $else); }
31
32 Location information is also accessible using @name syntax. When
33 accessing symbol names containing dots or dashes, explicit bracketing
34 ($[sym.1]) must be used.
35
36 These features are experimental in this version. More user feedback
37 will help to stabilize them.
38
39** IELR(1) and canonical LR(1):
40
41 IELR(1) is a minimal LR(1) parser table generation algorithm. That
42 is, given any context-free grammar, IELR(1) generates parser tables
43 with the full language recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
44 nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1). This reduction
45 in parser states is often an order of magnitude. More importantly,
46 because canonical LR(1)'s extra parser states may contain duplicate
47 conflicts in the case of non-LR(1) grammars, the number of conflicts
48 for IELR(1) is often an order of magnitude less as well. This can
49 significantly reduce the complexity of developing of a grammar.
50
51 Bison can now generate IELR(1) and canonical LR(1) parser tables in
52 place of its traditional LALR(1) parser tables, which remain the
53 default. You can specify the type of parser tables in the grammar
54 file with these directives:
55
56 %define lr.type lalr
57 %define lr.type ielr
58 %define lr.type canonical-lr
59
60 The default-reduction optimization in the parser tables can also be
61 adjusted using `%define lr.default-reductions'. For details on both
62 of these features, see the new section `Tuning LR' in the Bison
63 manual.
64
65 These features are experimental. More user feedback will help to
66 stabilize them.
67
68** LAC (Lookahead Correction) for syntax error handling:
69
70 Canonical LR, IELR, and LALR can suffer from a couple of problems
71 upon encountering a syntax error. First, the parser might perform
72 additional parser stack reductions before discovering the syntax
73 error. Such reductions can perform user semantic actions that are
74 unexpected because they are based on an invalid token, and they
75 cause error recovery to begin in a different syntactic context than
76 the one in which the invalid token was encountered. Second, when
77 verbose error messages are enabled (with %error-verbose or the
78 obsolete `#define YYERROR_VERBOSE'), the expected token list in the
79 syntax error message can both contain invalid tokens and omit valid
80 tokens.
81
82 The culprits for the above problems are %nonassoc, default
83 reductions in inconsistent states, and parser state merging. Thus,
84 IELR and LALR suffer the most. Canonical LR can suffer only if
85 %nonassoc is used or if default reductions are enabled for
86 inconsistent states.
87
88 LAC is a new mechanism within the parsing algorithm that solves
89 these problems for canonical LR, IELR, and LALR without sacrificing
90 %nonassoc, default reductions, or state merging. When LAC is in
91 use, canonical LR and IELR behave almost exactly the same for both
92 syntactically acceptable and syntactically unacceptable input.
93 While LALR still does not support the full language-recognition
94 power of canonical LR and IELR, LAC at least enables LALR's syntax
95 error handling to correctly reflect LALR's language-recognition
96 power.
97
98 Currently, LAC is only supported for deterministic parsers in C.
99 You can enable LAC with the following directive:
100
101 %define parse.lac full
102
103 See the new section `LAC' in the Bison manual for additional
104 details including a few caveats.
105
106 LAC is an experimental feature. More user feedback will help to
107 stabilize it.
108
109** %define improvements:
110
111*** Can now be invoked via the command line:
112
113 Each of these command-line options
114
115 -D NAME[=VALUE]
116 --define=NAME[=VALUE]
117
118 -F NAME[=VALUE]
119 --force-define=NAME[=VALUE]
120
121 is equivalent to this grammar file declaration
122
123 %define NAME ["VALUE"]
124
125 except that the manner in which Bison processes multiple definitions
126 for the same NAME differs. Most importantly, -F and --force-define
127 quietly override %define, but -D and --define do not. For further
128 details, see the section "Bison Options" in the Bison manual.
129
130*** Variables renamed:
131
132 The following %define variables
133
134 api.push_pull
135 lr.keep_unreachable_states
136
137 have been renamed to
138
139 api.push-pull
140 lr.keep-unreachable-states
141
142 The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely
143 for backward compatibility.
144
145*** Values no longer need to be quoted in grammar file:
146
147 If a %define value is an identifier, it no longer needs to be placed
148 within quotations marks. For example,
149
150 %define api.push-pull "push"
151
152 can be rewritten as
153
154 %define api.push-pull push
155
156*** Unrecognized variables are now errors not warnings.
157
158*** Multiple invocations for any variable is now an error not a warning.
159
160** Unrecognized %code qualifiers are now errors not warnings.
161
162** Character literals not of length one:
163
164 Previously, Bison quietly converted all character literals to length
165 one. For example, without warning, Bison interpreted the operators in
166 the following grammar to be the same token:
167
168 exp: exp '++'
169 | exp '+' exp
170 ;
171
172 Bison now warns when a character literal is not of length one. In
173 some future release, Bison will start reporting an error instead.
174
175** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions:
176
177 Previously for deterministic parsers in C, if a user semantic action
178 altered yychar, the parser in some cases used the old yychar value to
179 determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax
180 error or upon parser return. This bug has been fixed.
181
182** C++ parsers use YYRHSLOC:
183
184 Similarly to the C parsers, the C++ parsers now define the YYRHSLOC
185 macro and use it in the default YYLLOC_DEFAULT. You are encouraged
186 to use it. If, for instance, your location structure has "first"
187 and "last" members, instead of
188
189 # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \
190 do \
191 if (N) \
192 { \
193 (Current).first = (Rhs)[1].location.first; \
194 (Current).last = (Rhs)[N].location.last; \
195 } \
196 else \
197 { \
198 (Current).first = (Current).last = (Rhs)[0].location.last; \
199 } \
200 while (false)
201
202 use:
203
204 # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \
205 do \
206 if (N) \
207 { \
208 (Current).first = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 1).first; \
209 (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, N).last; \
210 } \
211 else \
212 { \
213 (Current).first = (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 0).last; \
214 } \
215 while (false)
216
217** YYLLOC_DEFAULT in C++:
218
219 The default implementation of YYLLOC_DEFAULT used to be issued in
220 the header file. It is now output in the implementation file, after
221 the user %code sections so that its #ifndef guard does not try to
222 override the user's YYLLOC_DEFAULT if provided.
223
224** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it:
225
226 YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
227 deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. More recently, it was
228 a documented feature of Bison's experimental Java parsers. As
229 promised in Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, any appearance of YYFAIL in a
230 semantic action now produces a deprecation warning, and Java parsers
231 no longer implement YYFAIL at all. For further details, including a
232 discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL
233 being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry.
234
235** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action:
236
237 Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for
238 reductions when the output language defaulted to C (specifically, when
239 neither %yacc, %language, %skeleton, or equivalent command-line
240 options were specified). This allowed actions such as
241
242 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
243
244 instead of
245
246 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
247
248 As a first step in removing this misfeature, Bison now issues a
249 warning when it appends a semicolon. Moreover, in cases where Bison
250 cannot easily determine whether a semicolon is needed (for example, an
251 action ending with a cpp directive or a braced compound initializer),
252 it no longer appends one. Thus, the C compiler might now complain
253 about a missing semicolon where it did not before. Future releases of
254 Bison will cease to append semicolons entirely.
255
256** Verbose syntax error message fixes:
257
258 When %error-verbose or the obsolete `#define YYERROR_VERBOSE' is
259 specified, syntax error messages produced by the generated parser
260 include the unexpected token as well as a list of expected tokens.
261 The effect of %nonassoc on these verbose messages has been corrected
262 in two ways, but a more complete fix requires LAC, described above:
263
264*** When %nonassoc is used, there can exist parser states that accept no
265 tokens, and so the parser does not always require a lookahead token
266 in order to detect a syntax error. Because no unexpected token or
267 expected tokens can then be reported, the verbose syntax error
268 message described above is suppressed, and the parser instead
269 reports the simpler message, "syntax error". Previously, this
270 suppression was sometimes erroneously triggered by %nonassoc when a
271 lookahead was actually required. Now verbose messages are
272 suppressed only when all previous lookaheads have already been
273 shifted or discarded.
274
275*** Previously, the list of expected tokens erroneously included tokens
276 that would actually induce a syntax error because conflicts for them
277 were resolved with %nonassoc in the current parser state. Such
278 tokens are now properly omitted from the list.
279
280*** Expected token lists are still often wrong due to state merging
281 (from LALR or IELR) and default reductions, which can both add
282 invalid tokens and subtract valid tokens. Canonical LR almost
283 completely fixes this problem by eliminating state merging and
284 default reductions. However, there is one minor problem left even
285 when using canonical LR and even after the fixes above. That is,
286 if the resolution of a conflict with %nonassoc appears in a later
287 parser state than the one at which some syntax error is
288 discovered, the conflicted token is still erroneously included in
289 the expected token list. Bison's new LAC implementation,
290 described above, eliminates this problem and the need for
291 canonical LR. However, LAC is still experimental and is disabled
292 by default.
293
294** Java skeleton fixes:
295
296*** A location handling bug has been fixed.
297
298*** The top element of each of the value stack and location stack is now
299 cleared when popped so that it can be garbage collected.
300
301*** Parser traces now print the top element of the stack.
302
303** -W/--warnings fixes:
304
305*** Bison now properly recognizes the "no-" versions of categories:
306
307 For example, given the following command line, Bison now enables all
308 warnings except warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
309
310 bison -Wall,no-yacc gram.y
311
312* Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
313
314** Bison now obeys -Werror and --warnings=error for warnings about
315 grammar rules that are useless in the parser due to conflicts.
316
317** Problems with spawning M4 on at least FreeBSD 8 and FreeBSD 9 have
318 been fixed.
319
320** Failures in the test suite for GCC 4.5 have been fixed.
321
322** Failures in the test suite for some versions of Sun Studio C++ have
323 been fixed.
324
325** Contrary to Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, it has been decided that
326 warnings about undefined %prec identifiers will not be converted to
327 errors in Bison 2.5. They will remain warnings, which should be
328 sufficient for POSIX while avoiding backward compatibility issues.
329
330** Minor documentation fixes.
331
332* Changes in version 2.4.2 (2010-03-20):
333
334** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks
335 in the test suite on some versions of at least Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
336 RHEL4, and Tru64 have been addressed. As a result, fatal Bison
337 errors should no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
338 affected platforms.
339
340** `%prec IDENTIFIER' requires IDENTIFIER to be defined separately.
341
342 POSIX specifies that an error be reported for any identifier that does
343 not appear on the LHS of a grammar rule and that is not defined by
344 %token, %left, %right, or %nonassoc. Bison 2.3b and later lost this
345 error report for the case when an identifier appears only after a
346 %prec directive. It is now restored. However, for backward
347 compatibility with recent Bison releases, it is only a warning for
348 now. In Bison 2.5 and later, it will return to being an error.
349 [Between the 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 releases, it was decided that this
350 warning will not be converted to an error in Bison 2.5.]
351
352** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.
353
354** Warnings from gcc's -Wundef option about undefined YYENABLE_NLS,
355 YYLTYPE_IS_TRIVIAL, and __STRICT_ANSI__ in C/C++ parsers are now
356 avoided.
357
358** %code is now a permanent feature.
359
360 A traditional Yacc prologue directive is written in the form:
361
362 %{CODE%}
363
364 To provide a more flexible alternative, Bison 2.3b introduced the
365 %code directive with the following forms for C/C++:
366
367 %code {CODE}
368 %code requires {CODE}
369 %code provides {CODE}
370 %code top {CODE}
371
372 These forms are now considered permanent features of Bison. See the
373 %code entries in the section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
374 manual for a summary of their functionality. See the section
375 "Prologue Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the
376 advantages of %code over the traditional Yacc prologue directive.
377
378 Bison's Java feature as a whole including its current usage of %code
379 is still considered experimental.
380
381** YYFAIL is deprecated and will eventually be removed.
382
383 YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
384 deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. Previously, it was
385 documented for Bison's experimental Java parsers. YYFAIL is no longer
386 documented for Java parsers and is formally deprecated in both cases.
387 Users are strongly encouraged to migrate to YYERROR, which is
388 specified by POSIX.
389
390 Like YYERROR, you can invoke YYFAIL from a semantic action in order to
391 induce a syntax error. The most obvious difference from YYERROR is
392 that YYFAIL will automatically invoke yyerror to report the syntax
393 error so that you don't have to. However, there are several other
394 subtle differences between YYERROR and YYFAIL, and YYFAIL suffers from
395 inherent flaws when %error-verbose or `#define YYERROR_VERBOSE' is
396 used. For a more detailed discussion, see:
397
398 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-12/msg00024.html
399
400 The upcoming Bison 2.5 will remove YYFAIL from Java parsers, but
401 deterministic parsers in C will continue to implement it. However,
402 because YYFAIL is already flawed, it seems futile to try to make new
403 Bison features compatible with it. Thus, during parser generation,
404 Bison 2.5 will produce a warning whenever it discovers YYFAIL in a
405 rule action. In a later release, YYFAIL will be disabled for
406 %error-verbose and `#define YYERROR_VERBOSE'. Eventually, YYFAIL will
407 be removed altogether.
408
409 There exists at least one case where Bison 2.5's YYFAIL warning will
410 be a false positive. Some projects add phony uses of YYFAIL and other
411 Bison-defined macros for the sole purpose of suppressing C
412 preprocessor warnings (from GCC cpp's -Wunused-macros, for example).
413 To avoid Bison's future warning, such YYFAIL uses can be moved to the
414 epilogue (that is, after the second `%%') in the Bison input file. In
415 this release (2.4.2), Bison already generates its own code to suppress
416 C preprocessor warnings for YYFAIL, so projects can remove their own
417 phony uses of YYFAIL if compatibility with Bison releases prior to
418 2.4.2 is not necessary.
419
420** Internationalization.
421
422 Fix a regression introduced in Bison 2.4: Under some circumstances,
423 message translations were not installed although supported by the
424 host system.
425
426* Changes in version 2.4.1 (2008-12-11):
427
428** In the GLR defines file, unexpanded M4 macros in the yylval and yylloc
429 declarations have been fixed.
430
431** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
432
433 Bison used to prepend a trailing semicolon at the end of the user
434 action for reductions. This allowed actions such as
435
436 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
437
438 instead of
439
440 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
441
442 Some grammars still depend on this `feature'. Bison 2.4.1 restores
443 the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when
444 neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options
445 are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old
446 behavior to be adjusted. Future releases of Bison will disable this
447 feature.
448
449** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.
450
451* Changes in version 2.4 (2008-11-02):
452
453** %language is an experimental feature.
454
455 We first introduced this feature in test release 2.3b as a cleaner
456 alternative to %skeleton. Since then, we have discussed the possibility of
457 modifying its effect on Bison's output file names. Thus, in this release,
458 we consider %language to be an experimental feature that will likely evolve
459 in future releases.
460
461** Forward compatibility with GNU M4 has been improved.
462
463** Several bugs in the C++ skeleton and the experimental Java skeleton have been
464 fixed.
465
466* Changes in version 2.3b (2008-05-27):
467
468** The quotes around NAME that used to be required in the following directive
469 are now deprecated:
470
471 %define NAME "VALUE"
472
473** The directive `%pure-parser' is now deprecated in favor of:
474
475 %define api.pure
476
477 which has the same effect except that Bison is more careful to warn about
478 unreasonable usage in the latter case.
479
480** Push Parsing
481
482 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in C with a push interface. That
483 is, instead of invoking `yyparse', which pulls tokens from `yylex', you can
484 push one token at a time to the parser using `yypush_parse', which will
485 return to the caller after processing each token. By default, the push
486 interface is disabled. Either of the following directives will enable it:
487
488 %define api.push_pull "push" // Just push; does not require yylex.
489 %define api.push_pull "both" // Push and pull; requires yylex.
490
491 See the new section `A Push Parser' in the Bison manual for details.
492
493 The current push parsing interface is experimental and may evolve. More user
494 feedback will help to stabilize it.
495
496** The -g and --graph options now output graphs in Graphviz DOT format,
497 not VCG format. Like --graph, -g now also takes an optional FILE argument
498 and thus cannot be bundled with other short options.
499
500** Java
501
502 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in Java. The skeleton is
503 `data/lalr1.java'. Consider using the new %language directive instead of
504 %skeleton to select it.
505
506 See the new section `Java Parsers' in the Bison manual for details.
507
508 The current Java interface is experimental and may evolve. More user
509 feedback will help to stabilize it.
510
511** %language
512
513 This new directive specifies the programming language of the generated
514 parser, which can be C (the default), C++, or Java. Besides the skeleton
515 that Bison uses, the directive affects the names of the generated files if
516 the grammar file's name ends in ".y".
517
518** XML Automaton Report
519
520 Bison can now generate an XML report of the LALR(1) automaton using the new
521 `--xml' option. The current XML schema is experimental and may evolve. More
522 user feedback will help to stabilize it.
523
524** The grammar file may now specify the name of the parser header file using
525 %defines. For example:
526
527 %defines "parser.h"
528
529** When reporting useless rules, useless nonterminals, and unused terminals,
530 Bison now employs the terms "useless in grammar" instead of "useless",
531 "useless in parser" instead of "never reduced", and "unused in grammar"
532 instead of "unused".
533
534** Unreachable State Removal
535
536 Previously, Bison sometimes generated parser tables containing unreachable
537 states. A state can become unreachable during conflict resolution if Bison
538 disables a shift action leading to it from a predecessor state. Bison now:
539
540 1. Removes unreachable states.
541
542 2. Does not report any conflicts that appeared in unreachable states.
543 WARNING: As a result, you may need to update %expect and %expect-rr
544 directives in existing grammar files.
545
546 3. For any rule used only in such states, Bison now reports the rule as
547 "useless in parser due to conflicts".
548
549 This feature can be disabled with the following directive:
550
551 %define lr.keep_unreachable_states
552
553 See the %define entry in the `Bison Declaration Summary' in the Bison manual
554 for further discussion.
555
556** Lookahead Set Correction in the `.output' Report
557
558 When instructed to generate a `.output' file including lookahead sets
559 (using `--report=lookahead', for example), Bison now prints each reduction's
560 lookahead set only next to the associated state's one item that (1) is
561 associated with the same rule as the reduction and (2) has its dot at the end
562 of its RHS. Previously, Bison also erroneously printed the lookahead set
563 next to all of the state's other items associated with the same rule. This
564 bug affected only the `.output' file and not the generated parser source
565 code.
566
567** --report-file=FILE is a new option to override the default `.output' file
568 name.
569
570** The `=' that used to be required in the following directives is now
571 deprecated:
572
573 %file-prefix "parser"
574 %name-prefix "c_"
575 %output "parser.c"
576
577** An Alternative to `%{...%}' -- `%code QUALIFIER {CODE}'
578
579 Bison 2.3a provided a new set of directives as a more flexible alternative to
580 the traditional Yacc prologue blocks. Those have now been consolidated into
581 a single %code directive with an optional qualifier field, which identifies
582 the purpose of the code and thus the location(s) where Bison should generate
583 it:
584
585 1. `%code {CODE}' replaces `%after-header {CODE}'
586 2. `%code requires {CODE}' replaces `%start-header {CODE}'
587 3. `%code provides {CODE}' replaces `%end-header {CODE}'
588 4. `%code top {CODE}' replaces `%before-header {CODE}'
589
590 See the %code entries in section `Bison Declaration Summary' in the Bison
591 manual for a summary of the new functionality. See the new section `Prologue
592 Alternatives' for a detailed discussion including the advantages of %code
593 over the traditional Yacc prologues.
594
595 The prologue alternatives are experimental. More user feedback will help to
596 determine whether they should become permanent features.
597
598** Revised warning: unset or unused mid-rule values
599
600 Since Bison 2.2, Bison has warned about mid-rule values that are set but not
601 used within any of the actions of the parent rule. For example, Bison warns
602 about unused $2 in:
603
604 exp: '1' { $$ = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $1 + $4; };
605
606 Now, Bison also warns about mid-rule values that are used but not set. For
607 example, Bison warns about unset $$ in the mid-rule action in:
608
609 exp: '1' { $1 = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $2 + $4; };
610
611 However, Bison now disables both of these warnings by default since they
612 sometimes prove to be false alarms in existing grammars employing the Yacc
613 constructs $0 or $-N (where N is some positive integer).
614
615 To enable these warnings, specify the option `--warnings=midrule-values' or
616 `-W', which is a synonym for `--warnings=all'.
617
618** Default %destructor or %printer with `<*>' or `<>'
619
620 Bison now recognizes two separate kinds of default %destructor's and
621 %printer's:
622
623 1. Place `<*>' in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
624 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols for which you have formally
625 declared semantic type tags.
626
627 2. Place `<>' in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
628 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols without declared semantic
629 type tags.
630
631 Bison no longer supports the `%symbol-default' notation from Bison 2.3a.
632 `<*>' and `<>' combined achieve the same effect with one exception: Bison no
633 longer applies any %destructor to a mid-rule value if that mid-rule value is
634 not actually ever referenced using either $$ or $n in a semantic action.
635
636 The default %destructor's and %printer's are experimental. More user
637 feedback will help to determine whether they should become permanent
638 features.
639
640 See the section `Freeing Discarded Symbols' in the Bison manual for further
641 details.
642
643** %left, %right, and %nonassoc can now declare token numbers. This is required
644 by POSIX. However, see the end of section `Operator Precedence' in the Bison
645 manual for a caveat concerning the treatment of literal strings.
646
647** The nonfunctional --no-parser, -n, and %no-parser options have been
648 completely removed from Bison.
649
650* Changes in version 2.3a, 2006-09-13:
651
652** Instead of %union, you can define and use your own union type
653 YYSTYPE if your grammar contains at least one <type> tag.
654 Your YYSTYPE need not be a macro; it can be a typedef.
655 This change is for compatibility with other Yacc implementations,
656 and is required by POSIX.
657
658** Locations columns and lines start at 1.
659 In accordance with the GNU Coding Standards and Emacs.
660
661** You may now declare per-type and default %destructor's and %printer's:
662
663 For example:
664
665 %union { char *string; }
666 %token <string> STRING1
667 %token <string> STRING2
668 %type <string> string1
669 %type <string> string2
670 %union { char character; }
671 %token <character> CHR
672 %type <character> chr
673 %destructor { free ($$); } %symbol-default
674 %destructor { free ($$); printf ("%d", @$.first_line); } STRING1 string1
675 %destructor { } <character>
676
677 guarantees that, when the parser discards any user-defined symbol that has a
678 semantic type tag other than `<character>', it passes its semantic value to
679 `free'. However, when the parser discards a `STRING1' or a `string1', it
680 also prints its line number to `stdout'. It performs only the second
681 `%destructor' in this case, so it invokes `free' only once.
682
683 [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the default
684 %destructor's and %printer's were experimental, and they were rewritten in
685 future versions.]
686
687** Except for LALR(1) parsers in C with POSIX Yacc emulation enabled (with `-y',
688 `--yacc', or `%yacc'), Bison no longer generates #define statements for
689 associating token numbers with token names. Removing the #define statements
690 helps to sanitize the global namespace during preprocessing, but POSIX Yacc
691 requires them. Bison still generates an enum for token names in all cases.
692
693** Handling of traditional Yacc prologue blocks is now more consistent but
694 potentially incompatible with previous releases of Bison.
695
696 As before, you declare prologue blocks in your grammar file with the
697 `%{ ... %}' syntax. To generate the pre-prologue, Bison concatenates all
698 prologue blocks that you've declared before the first %union. To generate
699 the post-prologue, Bison concatenates all prologue blocks that you've
700 declared after the first %union.
701
702 Previous releases of Bison inserted the pre-prologue into both the header
703 file and the code file in all cases except for LALR(1) parsers in C. In the
704 latter case, Bison inserted it only into the code file. For parsers in C++,
705 the point of insertion was before any token definitions (which associate
706 token numbers with names). For parsers in C, the point of insertion was
707 after the token definitions.
708
709 Now, Bison never inserts the pre-prologue into the header file. In the code
710 file, it always inserts it before the token definitions.
711
712** Bison now provides a more flexible alternative to the traditional Yacc
713 prologue blocks: %before-header, %start-header, %end-header, and
714 %after-header.
715
716 For example, the following declaration order in the grammar file reflects the
717 order in which Bison will output these code blocks. However, you are free to
718 declare these code blocks in your grammar file in whatever order is most
719 convenient for you:
720
721 %before-header {
722 /* Bison treats this block like a pre-prologue block: it inserts it into
723 * the code file before the contents of the header file. It does *not*
724 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to put
725 * #include's that you want at the top of your code file. A common
726 * example is `#include "system.h"'. */
727 }
728 %start-header {
729 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
730 * In both files, the point of insertion is before any Bison-generated
731 * token, semantic type, location type, and class definitions. This is a
732 * good place to define %union dependencies, for example. */
733 }
734 %union {
735 /* Unlike the traditional Yacc prologue blocks, the output order for the
736 * new %*-header blocks is not affected by their declaration position
737 * relative to any %union in the grammar file. */
738 }
739 %end-header {
740 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
741 * In both files, the point of insertion is after the Bison-generated
742 * definitions. This is a good place to declare or define public
743 * functions or data structures that depend on the Bison-generated
744 * definitions. */
745 }
746 %after-header {
747 /* Bison treats this block like a post-prologue block: it inserts it into
748 * the code file after the contents of the header file. It does *not*
749 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to declare or
750 * define internal functions or data structures that depend on the
751 * Bison-generated definitions. */
752 }
753
754 If you have multiple occurrences of any one of the above declarations, Bison
755 will concatenate the contents in declaration order.
756
757 [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the prologue
758 alternatives were experimental, and they were rewritten in future versions.]
759
760** The option `--report=look-ahead' has been changed to `--report=lookahead'.
761 The old spelling still works, but is not documented and may be removed
762 in a future release.
763
764* Changes in version 2.3, 2006-06-05:
765
766** GLR grammars should now use `YYRECOVERING ()' instead of `YYRECOVERING',
767 for compatibility with LALR(1) grammars.
768
769** It is now documented that any definition of YYSTYPE or YYLTYPE should
770 be to a type name that does not contain parentheses or brackets.
771
772* Changes in version 2.2, 2006-05-19:
773
774** The distribution terms for all Bison-generated parsers now permit
775 using the parsers in nonfree programs. Previously, this permission
776 was granted only for Bison-generated LALR(1) parsers in C.
777
778** %name-prefix changes the namespace name in C++ outputs.
779
780** The C++ parsers export their token_type.
781
782** Bison now allows multiple %union declarations, and concatenates
783 their contents together.
784
785** New warning: unused values
786 Right-hand side symbols whose values are not used are reported,
787 if the symbols have destructors. For instance:
788
789 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; }
790 | exp "+" exp
791 ;
792
793 will trigger a warning about $$ and $5 in the first rule, and $3 in
794 the second ($1 is copied to $$ by the default rule). This example
795 most likely contains three errors, and could be rewritten as:
796
797 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp
798 { $$ = $1 ? $3 : $5; free ($1 ? $5 : $3); free ($1); }
799 | exp "+" exp
800 { $$ = $1 ? $1 : $3; if ($1) free ($3); }
801 ;
802
803 However, if the original actions were really intended, memory leaks
804 and all, the warnings can be suppressed by letting Bison believe the
805 values are used, e.g.:
806
807 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; (void) ($$, $5); }
808 | exp "+" exp { $$ = $1; (void) $3; }
809 ;
810
811 If there are mid-rule actions, the warning is issued if no action
812 uses it. The following triggers no warning: $1 and $3 are used.
813
814 exp: exp { push ($1); } '+' exp { push ($3); sum (); };
815
816 The warning is intended to help catching lost values and memory leaks.
817 If a value is ignored, its associated memory typically is not reclaimed.
818
819** %destructor vs. YYABORT, YYACCEPT, and YYERROR.
820 Destructors are now called when user code invokes YYABORT, YYACCEPT,
821 and YYERROR, for all objects on the stack, other than objects
822 corresponding to the right-hand side of the current rule.
823
824** %expect, %expect-rr
825 Incorrect numbers of expected conflicts are now actual errors,
826 instead of warnings.
827
828** GLR, YACC parsers.
829 The %parse-params are available in the destructors (and the
830 experimental printers) as per the documentation.
831
832** Bison now warns if it finds a stray `$' or `@' in an action.
833
834** %require "VERSION"
835 This specifies that the grammar file depends on features implemented
836 in Bison version VERSION or higher.
837
838** lalr1.cc: The token and value types are now class members.
839 The tokens were defined as free form enums and cpp macros. YYSTYPE
840 was defined as a free form union. They are now class members:
841 tokens are enumerations of the `yy::parser::token' struct, and the
842 semantic values have the `yy::parser::semantic_type' type.
843
844 If you do not want or can update to this scheme, the directive
845 `%define "global_tokens_and_yystype" "1"' triggers the global
846 definition of tokens and YYSTYPE. This change is suitable both
847 for previous releases of Bison, and this one.
848
849 If you wish to update, then make sure older version of Bison will
850 fail using `%require "2.2"'.
851
852** DJGPP support added.
853\f
854* Changes in version 2.1, 2005-09-16:
855
856** The C++ lalr1.cc skeleton supports %lex-param.
857
858** Bison-generated parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like
859 "syntax error" into languages other than English. The default
860 language is still English. For details, please see the new
861 Internationalization section of the Bison manual. Software
862 distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file. Thanks to
863 Bruno Haible for this new feature.
864
865** Wording in the Bison-generated parsers has been changed slightly to
866 simplify translation. In particular, the message "memory exhausted"
867 has replaced "parser stack overflow", as the old message was not
868 always accurate for modern Bison-generated parsers.
869
870** Destructors are now called when the parser aborts, for all symbols left
871 behind on the stack. Also, the start symbol is now destroyed after a
872 successful parse. In both cases, the behavior was formerly inconsistent.
873
874** When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated parsers no longer
875 quote the literal strings associated with tokens. For example, for
876 a syntax error associated with '%token NUM "number"' they might
877 print 'syntax error, unexpected number' instead of 'syntax error,
878 unexpected "number"'.
879\f
880* Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25:
881
882** Possibly-incompatible changes
883
884 - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
885 (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
886 problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection. You can "#define
887 YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read
888 the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.
889
890 - Error token location.
891 During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
892 to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
893 the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
894 recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
895
896 - Semicolon changes:
897 . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
898 . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
899
900 - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
901 string literals. They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
902 dropped support for them. Better diagnostics are now generated if
903 forget a closing quote.
904
905 - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
906
907** New features
908
909 - GLR grammars now support locations.
910
911 - New directive: %initial-action.
912 This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
913 initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
914
915 - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
916 reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.
917
918 - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., `%token FOO 0x12d'.
919 This is a GNU extension.
920
921 - The option `--report=lookahead' was changed to `--report=look-ahead'.
922 [However, this was changed back after 2.3.]
923
924 - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
925
926 - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
927 yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
928
929** Bug fixes
930
931 - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
932 This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
933 reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
934 are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts). However, in future
935 versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
936 these violations will become errors again.
937
938 - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer
939 arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
940
941 - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
942\f
943* Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01:
944
945** The documentation license has been upgraded to version 1.2
946 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
947
948** syntax error processing
949
950 - In Yacc-style parsers YYLLOC_DEFAULT is now used to compute error
951 locations too. This fixes bugs in error-location computation.
952
953 - %destructor
954 It is now possible to reclaim the memory associated to symbols
955 discarded during error recovery. This feature is still experimental.
956
957 - %error-verbose
958 This new directive is preferred over YYERROR_VERBOSE.
959
960 - #defining yyerror to steal internal variables is discouraged.
961 It is not guaranteed to work forever.
962
963** POSIX conformance
964
965 - Semicolons are once again optional at the end of grammar rules.
966 This reverts to the behavior of Bison 1.33 and earlier, and improves
967 compatibility with Yacc.
968
969 - `parse error' -> `syntax error'
970 Bison now uniformly uses the term `syntax error'; formerly, the code
971 and manual sometimes used the term `parse error' instead. POSIX
972 requires `syntax error' in diagnostics, and it was thought better to
973 be consistent.
974
975 - The documentation now emphasizes that yylex and yyerror must be
976 declared before use. C99 requires this.
977
978 - Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like UCNs and
979 backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires.
980
981 - File names are properly escaped in C output. E.g., foo\bar.y is
982 output as "foo\\bar.y".
983
984 - Yacc command and library now available
985 The Bison distribution now installs a `yacc' command, as POSIX requires.
986 Also, Bison now installs a small library liby.a containing
987 implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions.
988 This library is normally not useful, but POSIX requires it.
989
990 - Type clashes now generate warnings, not errors.
991
992 - If the user does not define YYSTYPE as a macro, Bison now declares it
993 using typedef instead of defining it as a macro.
994 For consistency, YYLTYPE is also declared instead of defined.
995
996** Other compatibility issues
997
998 - %union directives can now have a tag before the `{', e.g., the
999 directive `%union foo {...}' now generates the C code
1000 `typedef union foo { ... } YYSTYPE;'; this is for Yacc compatibility.
1001 The default union tag is `YYSTYPE', for compatibility with Solaris 9 Yacc.
1002 For consistency, YYLTYPE's struct tag is now `YYLTYPE' not `yyltype'.
1003 This is for compatibility with both Yacc and Bison 1.35.
1004
1005 - `;' is output before the terminating `}' of an action, for
1006 compatibility with Bison 1.35.
1007
1008 - Bison now uses a Yacc-style format for conflict reports, e.g.,
1009 `conflicts: 2 shift/reduce, 1 reduce/reduce'.
1010
1011 - `yystype' and `yyltype' are now obsolescent macros instead of being
1012 typedefs or tags; they are no longer documented and are planned to be
1013 withdrawn in a future release.
1014
1015** GLR parser notes
1016
1017 - GLR and inline
1018 Users of Bison have to decide how they handle the portability of the
1019 C keyword `inline'.
1020
1021 - `parsing stack overflow...' -> `parser stack overflow'
1022 GLR parsers now report `parser stack overflow' as per the Bison manual.
1023
1024** Bison now warns if it detects conflicting outputs to the same file,
1025 e.g., it generates a warning for `bison -d -o foo.h foo.y' since
1026 that command outputs both code and header to foo.h.
1027
1028** #line in output files
1029 - --no-line works properly.
1030
1031** Bison can no longer be built by a K&R C compiler; it requires C89 or
1032 later to be built. This change originally took place a few versions
1033 ago, but nobody noticed until we recently asked someone to try
1034 building Bison with a K&R C compiler.
1035\f
1036* Changes in version 1.75, 2002-10-14:
1037
1038** Bison should now work on 64-bit hosts.
1039
1040** Indonesian translation thanks to Tedi Heriyanto.
1041
1042** GLR parsers
1043 Fix spurious parse errors.
1044
1045** Pure parsers
1046 Some people redefine yyerror to steal yyparse' private variables.
1047 Reenable this trick until an official feature replaces it.
1048
1049** Type Clashes
1050 In agreement with POSIX and with other Yaccs, leaving a default
1051 action is valid when $$ is untyped, and $1 typed:
1052
1053 untyped: ... typed;
1054
1055 but the converse remains an error:
1056
1057 typed: ... untyped;
1058
1059** Values of mid-rule actions
1060 The following code:
1061
1062 foo: { ... } { $$ = $1; } ...
1063
1064 was incorrectly rejected: $1 is defined in the second mid-rule
1065 action, and is equal to the $$ of the first mid-rule action.
1066\f
1067* Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04:
1068
1069** GLR parsing
1070 The declaration
1071 %glr-parser
1072 causes Bison to produce a Generalized LR (GLR) parser, capable of handling
1073 almost any context-free grammar, ambiguous or not. The new declarations
1074 %dprec and %merge on grammar rules allow parse-time resolution of
1075 ambiguities. Contributed by Paul Hilfinger.
1076
1077 Unfortunately Bison 1.50 does not work properly on 64-bit hosts
1078 like the Alpha, so please stick to 32-bit hosts for now.
1079
1080** Output Directory
1081 When not in Yacc compatibility mode, when the output file was not
1082 specified, running `bison foo/bar.y' created `foo/bar.c'. It
1083 now creates `bar.c'.
1084
1085** Undefined token
1086 The undefined token was systematically mapped to 2 which prevented
1087 the use of 2 by the user. This is no longer the case.
1088
1089** Unknown token numbers
1090 If yylex returned an out of range value, yyparse could die. This is
1091 no longer the case.
1092
1093** Error token
1094 According to POSIX, the error token must be 256.
1095 Bison extends this requirement by making it a preference: *if* the
1096 user specified that one of her tokens is numbered 256, then error
1097 will be mapped onto another number.
1098
1099** Verbose error messages
1100 They no longer report `..., expecting error or...' for states where
1101 error recovery is possible.
1102
1103** End token
1104 Defaults to `$end' instead of `$'.
1105
1106** Error recovery now conforms to documentation and to POSIX
1107 When a Bison-generated parser encounters a syntax error, it now pops
1108 the stack until it finds a state that allows shifting the error
1109 token. Formerly, it popped the stack until it found a state that
1110 allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the
1111 error token. The new behavior has long been the documented behavior,
1112 and has long been required by POSIX. For more details, please see
1113 Paul Eggert, "Reductions during Bison error handling" (2002-05-20)
1114 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2002-05/msg00038.html>.
1115
1116** Traces
1117 Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.
1118
1119** Larger grammars
1120 Larger grammars are now supported (larger token numbers, larger grammar
1121 size (= sum of the LHS and RHS lengths), larger LALR tables).
1122 Formerly, many of these numbers ran afoul of 16-bit limits;
1123 now these limits are 32 bits on most hosts.
1124
1125** Explicit initial rule
1126 Bison used to play hacks with the initial rule, which the user does
1127 not write. It is now explicit, and visible in the reports and
1128 graphs as rule 0.
1129
1130** Useless rules
1131 Before, Bison reported the useless rules, but, although not used,
1132 included them in the parsers. They are now actually removed.
1133
1134** Useless rules, useless nonterminals
1135 They are now reported, as a warning, with their locations.
1136
1137** Rules never reduced
1138 Rules that can never be reduced because of conflicts are now
1139 reported.
1140
1141** Incorrect `Token not used'
1142 On a grammar such as
1143
1144 %token useless useful
1145 %%
1146 exp: '0' %prec useful;
1147
1148 where a token was used to set the precedence of the last rule,
1149 bison reported both `useful' and `useless' as useless tokens.
1150
1151** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31
1152 as they caused too many portability hassles.
1153
1154** Default locations
1155 By an accident of design, the default computation of @$ was
1156 performed after another default computation was performed: @$ = @1.
1157 The latter is now removed: YYLLOC_DEFAULT is fully responsible of
1158 the computation of @$.
1159
1160** Token end-of-file
1161 The token end of file may be specified by the user, in which case,
1162 the user symbol is used in the reports, the graphs, and the verbose
1163 error messages instead of `$end', which remains being the default.
1164 For instance
1165 %token MYEOF 0
1166 or
1167 %token MYEOF 0 "end of file"
1168
1169** Semantic parser
1170 This old option, which has been broken for ages, is removed.
1171
1172** New translations
1173 Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Alexandre Folle de Menezes.
1174 Croatian, thanks to Denis Lackovic.
1175
1176** Incorrect token definitions
1177 When given `%token 'a' "A"', Bison used to output `#define 'a' 65'.
1178
1179** Token definitions as enums
1180 Tokens are output both as the traditional #define's, and, provided
1181 the compiler supports ANSI C or is a C++ compiler, as enums.
1182 This lets debuggers display names instead of integers.
1183
1184** Reports
1185 In addition to --verbose, bison supports --report=THINGS, which
1186 produces additional information:
1187 - itemset
1188 complete the core item sets with their closure
1189 - lookahead [changed to `look-ahead' in 1.875e through 2.3, but changed back]
1190 explicitly associate lookahead tokens to items
1191 - solved
1192 describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
1193 Bison used to systematically output this information on top of
1194 the report. Solved conflicts are now attached to their states.
1195
1196** Type clashes
1197 Previous versions don't complain when there is a type clash on
1198 the default action if the rule has a mid-rule action, such as in:
1199
1200 %type <foo> bar
1201 %%
1202 bar: '0' {} '0';
1203
1204 This is fixed.
1205
1206** GNU M4 is now required when using Bison.
1207\f
1208* Changes in version 1.35, 2002-03-25:
1209
1210** C Skeleton
1211 Some projects use Bison's C parser with C++ compilers, and define
1212 YYSTYPE as a class. The recent adjustment of C parsers for data
1213 alignment and 64 bit architectures made this impossible.
1214
1215 Because for the time being no real solution for C++ parser
1216 generation exists, kludges were implemented in the parser to
1217 maintain this use. In the future, when Bison has C++ parsers, this
1218 kludge will be disabled.
1219
1220 This kludge also addresses some C++ problems when the stack was
1221 extended.
1222\f
1223* Changes in version 1.34, 2002-03-12:
1224
1225** File name clashes are detected
1226 $ bison foo.y -d -o foo.x
1227 fatal error: header and parser would both be named `foo.x'
1228
1229** A missing `;' at the end of a rule triggers a warning
1230 In accordance with POSIX, and in agreement with other
1231 Yacc implementations, Bison will mandate this semicolon in the near
1232 future. This eases the implementation of a Bison parser of Bison
1233 grammars by making this grammar LALR(1) instead of LR(2). To
1234 facilitate the transition, this release introduces a warning.
1235
1236** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31, as they caused too
1237 many portability hassles.
1238
1239** DJGPP support added.
1240
1241** Fix test suite portability problems.
1242\f
1243* Changes in version 1.33, 2002-02-07:
1244
1245** Fix C++ issues
1246 Groff could not be compiled for the definition of size_t was lacking
1247 under some conditions.
1248
1249** Catch invalid @n
1250 As is done with $n.
1251\f
1252* Changes in version 1.32, 2002-01-23:
1253
1254** Fix Yacc output file names
1255
1256** Portability fixes
1257
1258** Italian, Dutch translations
1259\f
1260* Changes in version 1.31, 2002-01-14:
1261
1262** Many Bug Fixes
1263
1264** GNU Gettext and %expect
1265 GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
1266 Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
1267 too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
1268 does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
1269
1270** Use of alloca in parsers
1271 If YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA is defined to 0, then the parsers will use
1272 malloc exclusively. Since 1.29, but was not NEWS'ed.
1273
1274 alloca is used only when compiled with GCC, to avoid portability
1275 problems as on AIX.
1276
1277** yyparse now returns 2 if memory is exhausted; formerly it dumped core.
1278
1279** When the generated parser lacks debugging code, YYDEBUG is now 0
1280 (as POSIX requires) instead of being undefined.
1281
1282** User Actions
1283 Bison has always permitted actions such as { $$ = $1 }: it adds the
1284 ending semicolon. Now if in Yacc compatibility mode, the semicolon
1285 is no longer output: one has to write { $$ = $1; }.
1286
1287** Better C++ compliance
1288 The output parsers try to respect C++ namespaces.
1289 [This turned out to be a failed experiment, and it was reverted later.]
1290
1291** Reduced Grammars
1292 Fixed bugs when reporting useless nonterminals.
1293
1294** 64 bit hosts
1295 The parsers work properly on 64 bit hosts.
1296
1297** Error messages
1298 Some calls to strerror resulted in scrambled or missing error messages.
1299
1300** %expect
1301 When the number of shift/reduce conflicts is correct, don't issue
1302 any warning.
1303
1304** The verbose report includes the rule line numbers.
1305
1306** Rule line numbers are fixed in traces.
1307
1308** Swedish translation
1309
1310** Parse errors
1311 Verbose parse error messages from the parsers are better looking.
1312 Before: parse error: unexpected `'/'', expecting `"number"' or `'-'' or `'(''
1313 Now: parse error: unexpected '/', expecting "number" or '-' or '('
1314
1315** Fixed parser memory leaks.
1316 When the generated parser was using malloc to extend its stacks, the
1317 previous allocations were not freed.
1318
1319** Fixed verbose output file.
1320 Some newlines were missing.
1321 Some conflicts in state descriptions were missing.
1322
1323** Fixed conflict report.
1324 Option -v was needed to get the result.
1325
1326** %expect
1327 Was not used.
1328 Mismatches are errors, not warnings.
1329
1330** Fixed incorrect processing of some invalid input.
1331
1332** Fixed CPP guards: 9foo.h uses BISON_9FOO_H instead of 9FOO_H.
1333
1334** Fixed some typos in the documentation.
1335
1336** %token MY_EOF 0 is supported.
1337 Before, MY_EOF was silently renumbered as 257.
1338
1339** doc/refcard.tex is updated.
1340
1341** %output, %file-prefix, %name-prefix.
1342 New.
1343
1344** --output
1345 New, aliasing `--output-file'.
1346\f
1347* Changes in version 1.30, 2001-10-26:
1348
1349** `--defines' and `--graph' have now an optional argument which is the
1350 output file name. `-d' and `-g' do not change; they do not take any
1351 argument.
1352
1353** `%source_extension' and `%header_extension' are removed, failed
1354 experiment.
1355
1356** Portability fixes.
1357\f
1358* Changes in version 1.29, 2001-09-07:
1359
1360** The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used
1361 with common autoconfiguration schemes. If you still use ancient compilers
1362 that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option
1363 `-Dconst='. autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this.
1364
1365** Added `-g' and `--graph'.
1366
1367** The Bison manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
1368
1369** The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension.
1370
1371** Russian translation added.
1372
1373** NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
1374
1375** Added the old Bison reference card.
1376
1377** Added `--locations' and `%locations'.
1378
1379** Added `-S' and `--skeleton'.
1380
1381** `%raw', `-r', `--raw' is disabled.
1382
1383** Special characters are escaped when output. This solves the problems
1384 of the #line lines with path names including backslashes.
1385
1386** New directives.
1387 `%yacc', `%fixed_output_files', `%defines', `%no_parser', `%verbose',
1388 `%debug', `%source_extension' and `%header_extension'.
1389
1390** @$
1391 Automatic location tracking.
1392\f
1393* Changes in version 1.28, 1999-07-06:
1394
1395** Should compile better now with K&R compilers.
1396
1397** Added NLS.
1398
1399** Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character.
1400
1401** There is now a FAQ.
1402\f
1403* Changes in version 1.27:
1404
1405** The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on
1406 some systems has been fixed.
1407\f
1408* Changes in version 1.26:
1409
1410** Bison now uses automake.
1411
1412** New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>.
1413
1414** Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258.
1415
1416** Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable.
1417
1418** A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed.
1419
1420** Problems when closing files should now be reported.
1421
1422** Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do
1423 not provide alloca().
1424\f
1425* Changes in version 1.25, 1995-10-16:
1426
1427** Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading
1428the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it.
1429
1430** Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for
1431example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead
1432of chosing a name like LESSEQ.
1433
1434** The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names
1435and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this
1436table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other
1437purposes.
1438
1439** The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor
1440directives in the parser file.
1441
1442** The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not
1443Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros.
1444
1445** The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including
1446the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine.
1447The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of
1448a switch statement body.
1449\f
1450* Changes in version 1.23:
1451
1452The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be
1453passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should
1454actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable
1455by casting it to the proper pointer type.
1456
1457Line numbers in output file corrected.
1458\f
1459* Changes in version 1.22:
1460
1461--help option added.
1462\f
1463* Changes in version 1.20:
1464
1465Output file does not redefine const for C++.
1466
1467Local Variables:
1468mode: outline
1469End:
1470
1471-----
1472
1473Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1474
1475This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.
1476
1477This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
1478it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
1479the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1480(at your option) any later version.
1481
1482This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1483but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1484MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1485GNU General Public License for more details.
1486
1487You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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