| 1 | Bison News |
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| 3 | |
| 4 | Changes in version 1.28a: |
| 5 | |
| 6 | * Russian translation added. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | * NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | * Added the old Bison reference card. |
| 11 | \f |
| 12 | Changes in version 1.28: |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * Should compile better now with K&R compilers. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | * Added NLS. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | * Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | * There is now a FAQ. |
| 21 | \f |
| 22 | Changes in version 1.27: |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on |
| 25 | some systems has been fixed. |
| 26 | \f |
| 27 | Changes in version 1.26: |
| 28 | |
| 29 | * Bison now uses automake. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | * New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | * Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | * A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | * Problems when closing files should now be reported. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | * Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do |
| 42 | not provide alloca(). |
| 43 | \f |
| 44 | Changes in version 1.25: |
| 45 | |
| 46 | * Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading |
| 47 | the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | * Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for |
| 50 | example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead |
| 51 | of chosing a name like LESSEQ. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | * The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names |
| 54 | and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this |
| 55 | table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other |
| 56 | purposes. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | * The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor |
| 59 | directives in the parser file. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | * The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not |
| 62 | Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | * The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including |
| 65 | the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine. |
| 66 | The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of |
| 67 | a switch statement body. |
| 68 | \f |
| 69 | Changes in version 1.23: |
| 70 | |
| 71 | The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be |
| 72 | passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should |
| 73 | actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable |
| 74 | by casting it to the proper pointer type. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | Line numbers in output file corrected. |
| 77 | \f |
| 78 | Changes in version 1.22: |
| 79 | |
| 80 | --help option added. |
| 81 | \f |
| 82 | Changes in version 1.20: |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Output file does not redefine const for C++. |