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4* Changes in version 2.5 (????-??-??):
5
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*** The "none" category no longer disables a preceding "error":
313
314 For example, for the following command line, Bison now reports
315 errors instead of warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
316
317 bison -Werror,none,yacc gram.y
318
319* Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
320
321** Bison now obeys -Werror and --warnings=error for warnings about
322 grammar rules that are useless in the parser due to conflicts.
323
324** Problems with spawning M4 on at least FreeBSD 8 and FreeBSD 9 have
325 been fixed.
326
327** Failures in the test suite for GCC 4.5 have been fixed.
328
329** Failures in the test suite for some versions of Sun Studio C++ have
330 been fixed.
331
332** Contrary to Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, it has been decided that
333 warnings about undefined %prec identifiers will not be converted to
334 errors in Bison 2.5. They will remain warnings, which should be
335 sufficient for POSIX while avoiding backward compatibility issues.
336
337** Minor documentation fixes.
338
339* Changes in version 2.4.2 (2010-03-20):
340
341** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks
342 in the test suite on some versions of at least Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
343 RHEL4, and Tru64 have been addressed. As a result, fatal Bison
344 errors should no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
345 affected platforms.
346
347** `%prec IDENTIFIER' requires IDENTIFIER to be defined separately.
348
349 POSIX specifies that an error be reported for any identifier that does
350 not appear on the LHS of a grammar rule and that is not defined by
351 %token, %left, %right, or %nonassoc. Bison 2.3b and later lost this
352 error report for the case when an identifier appears only after a
353 %prec directive. It is now restored. However, for backward
354 compatibility with recent Bison releases, it is only a warning for
355 now. In Bison 2.5 and later, it will return to being an error.
356 [Between the 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 releases, it was decided that this
357 warning will not be converted to an error in Bison 2.5.]
358
359** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.
360
361** Warnings from gcc's -Wundef option about undefined YYENABLE_NLS,
362 YYLTYPE_IS_TRIVIAL, and __STRICT_ANSI__ in C/C++ parsers are now
363 avoided.
364
365** %code is now a permanent feature.
366
367 A traditional Yacc prologue directive is written in the form:
368
369 %{CODE%}
370
371 To provide a more flexible alternative, Bison 2.3b introduced the
372 %code directive with the following forms for C/C++:
373
374 %code {CODE}
375 %code requires {CODE}
376 %code provides {CODE}
377 %code top {CODE}
378
379 These forms are now considered permanent features of Bison. See the
380 %code entries in the section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
381 manual for a summary of their functionality. See the section
382 "Prologue Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the
383 advantages of %code over the traditional Yacc prologue directive.
384
385 Bison's Java feature as a whole including its current usage of %code
386 is still considered experimental.
387
388** YYFAIL is deprecated and will eventually be removed.
389
390 YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
391 deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. Previously, it was
392 documented for Bison's experimental Java parsers. YYFAIL is no longer
393 documented for Java parsers and is formally deprecated in both cases.
394 Users are strongly encouraged to migrate to YYERROR, which is
395 specified by POSIX.
396
397 Like YYERROR, you can invoke YYFAIL from a semantic action in order to
398 induce a syntax error. The most obvious difference from YYERROR is
399 that YYFAIL will automatically invoke yyerror to report the syntax
400 error so that you don't have to. However, there are several other
401 subtle differences between YYERROR and YYFAIL, and YYFAIL suffers from
402 inherent flaws when %error-verbose or `#define YYERROR_VERBOSE' is
403 used. For a more detailed discussion, see:
404
405 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-12/msg00024.html
406
407 The upcoming Bison 2.5 will remove YYFAIL from Java parsers, but
408 deterministic parsers in C will continue to implement it. However,
409 because YYFAIL is already flawed, it seems futile to try to make new
410 Bison features compatible with it. Thus, during parser generation,
411 Bison 2.5 will produce a warning whenever it discovers YYFAIL in a
412 rule action. In a later release, YYFAIL will be disabled for
413 %error-verbose and `#define YYERROR_VERBOSE'. Eventually, YYFAIL will
414 be removed altogether.
415
416 There exists at least one case where Bison 2.5's YYFAIL warning will
417 be a false positive. Some projects add phony uses of YYFAIL and other
418 Bison-defined macros for the sole purpose of suppressing C
419 preprocessor warnings (from GCC cpp's -Wunused-macros, for example).
420 To avoid Bison's future warning, such YYFAIL uses can be moved to the
421 epilogue (that is, after the second `%%') in the Bison input file. In
422 this release (2.4.2), Bison already generates its own code to suppress
423 C preprocessor warnings for YYFAIL, so projects can remove their own
424 phony uses of YYFAIL if compatibility with Bison releases prior to
425 2.4.2 is not necessary.
426
427** Internationalization.
428
429 Fix a regression introduced in Bison 2.4: Under some circumstances,
430 message translations were not installed although supported by the
431 host system.
432
433* Changes in version 2.4.1 (2008-12-11):
434
435** In the GLR defines file, unexpanded M4 macros in the yylval and yylloc
436 declarations have been fixed.
437
438** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
439
440 Bison used to prepend a trailing semicolon at the end of the user
441 action for reductions. This allowed actions such as
442
443 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
444
445 instead of
446
447 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
448
449 Some grammars still depend on this `feature'. Bison 2.4.1 restores
450 the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when
451 neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options
452 are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old
453 behavior to be adjusted. Future releases of Bison will disable this
454 feature.
455
456** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.
457
458* Changes in version 2.4 (2008-11-02):
459
460** %language is an experimental feature.
461
462 We first introduced this feature in test release 2.3b as a cleaner
463 alternative to %skeleton. Since then, we have discussed the possibility of
464 modifying its effect on Bison's output file names. Thus, in this release,
465 we consider %language to be an experimental feature that will likely evolve
466 in future releases.
467
468** Forward compatibility with GNU M4 has been improved.
469
470** Several bugs in the C++ skeleton and the experimental Java skeleton have been
471 fixed.
472
473* Changes in version 2.3b (2008-05-27):
474
475** The quotes around NAME that used to be required in the following directive
476 are now deprecated:
477
478 %define NAME "VALUE"
479
480** The directive `%pure-parser' is now deprecated in favor of:
481
482 %define api.pure
483
484 which has the same effect except that Bison is more careful to warn about
485 unreasonable usage in the latter case.
486
487** Push Parsing
488
489 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in C with a push interface. That
490 is, instead of invoking `yyparse', which pulls tokens from `yylex', you can
491 push one token at a time to the parser using `yypush_parse', which will
492 return to the caller after processing each token. By default, the push
493 interface is disabled. Either of the following directives will enable it:
494
495 %define api.push_pull "push" // Just push; does not require yylex.
496 %define api.push_pull "both" // Push and pull; requires yylex.
497
498 See the new section `A Push Parser' in the Bison manual for details.
499
500 The current push parsing interface is experimental and may evolve. More user
501 feedback will help to stabilize it.
502
503** The -g and --graph options now output graphs in Graphviz DOT format,
504 not VCG format. Like --graph, -g now also takes an optional FILE argument
505 and thus cannot be bundled with other short options.
506
507** Java
508
509 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in Java. The skeleton is
510 `data/lalr1.java'. Consider using the new %language directive instead of
511 %skeleton to select it.
512
513 See the new section `Java Parsers' in the Bison manual for details.
514
515 The current Java interface is experimental and may evolve. More user
516 feedback will help to stabilize it.
517
518** %language
519
520 This new directive specifies the programming language of the generated
521 parser, which can be C (the default), C++, or Java. Besides the skeleton
522 that Bison uses, the directive affects the names of the generated files if
523 the grammar file's name ends in ".y".
524
525** XML Automaton Report
526
527 Bison can now generate an XML report of the LALR(1) automaton using the new
528 `--xml' option. The current XML schema is experimental and may evolve. More
529 user feedback will help to stabilize it.
530
531** The grammar file may now specify the name of the parser header file using
532 %defines. For example:
533
534 %defines "parser.h"
535
536** When reporting useless rules, useless nonterminals, and unused terminals,
537 Bison now employs the terms "useless in grammar" instead of "useless",
538 "useless in parser" instead of "never reduced", and "unused in grammar"
539 instead of "unused".
540
541** Unreachable State Removal
542
543 Previously, Bison sometimes generated parser tables containing unreachable
544 states. A state can become unreachable during conflict resolution if Bison
545 disables a shift action leading to it from a predecessor state. Bison now:
546
547 1. Removes unreachable states.
548
549 2. Does not report any conflicts that appeared in unreachable states.
550 WARNING: As a result, you may need to update %expect and %expect-rr
551 directives in existing grammar files.
552
553 3. For any rule used only in such states, Bison now reports the rule as
554 "useless in parser due to conflicts".
555
556 This feature can be disabled with the following directive:
557
558 %define lr.keep_unreachable_states
559
560 See the %define entry in the `Bison Declaration Summary' in the Bison manual
561 for further discussion.
562
563** Lookahead Set Correction in the `.output' Report
564
565 When instructed to generate a `.output' file including lookahead sets
566 (using `--report=lookahead', for example), Bison now prints each reduction's
567 lookahead set only next to the associated state's one item that (1) is
568 associated with the same rule as the reduction and (2) has its dot at the end
569 of its RHS. Previously, Bison also erroneously printed the lookahead set
570 next to all of the state's other items associated with the same rule. This
571 bug affected only the `.output' file and not the generated parser source
572 code.
573
574** --report-file=FILE is a new option to override the default `.output' file
575 name.
576
577** The `=' that used to be required in the following directives is now
578 deprecated:
579
580 %file-prefix "parser"
581 %name-prefix "c_"
582 %output "parser.c"
583
584** An Alternative to `%{...%}' -- `%code QUALIFIER {CODE}'
585
586 Bison 2.3a provided a new set of directives as a more flexible alternative to
587 the traditional Yacc prologue blocks. Those have now been consolidated into
588 a single %code directive with an optional qualifier field, which identifies
589 the purpose of the code and thus the location(s) where Bison should generate
590 it:
591
592 1. `%code {CODE}' replaces `%after-header {CODE}'
593 2. `%code requires {CODE}' replaces `%start-header {CODE}'
594 3. `%code provides {CODE}' replaces `%end-header {CODE}'
595 4. `%code top {CODE}' replaces `%before-header {CODE}'
596
597 See the %code entries in section `Bison Declaration Summary' in the Bison
598 manual for a summary of the new functionality. See the new section `Prologue
599 Alternatives' for a detailed discussion including the advantages of %code
600 over the traditional Yacc prologues.
601
602 The prologue alternatives are experimental. More user feedback will help to
603 determine whether they should become permanent features.
604
605** Revised warning: unset or unused mid-rule values
606
607 Since Bison 2.2, Bison has warned about mid-rule values that are set but not
608 used within any of the actions of the parent rule. For example, Bison warns
609 about unused $2 in:
610
611 exp: '1' { $$ = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $1 + $4; };
612
613 Now, Bison also warns about mid-rule values that are used but not set. For
614 example, Bison warns about unset $$ in the mid-rule action in:
615
616 exp: '1' { $1 = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $2 + $4; };
617
618 However, Bison now disables both of these warnings by default since they
619 sometimes prove to be false alarms in existing grammars employing the Yacc
620 constructs $0 or $-N (where N is some positive integer).
621
622 To enable these warnings, specify the option `--warnings=midrule-values' or
623 `-W', which is a synonym for `--warnings=all'.
624
625** Default %destructor or %printer with `<*>' or `<>'
626
627 Bison now recognizes two separate kinds of default %destructor's and
628 %printer's:
629
630 1. Place `<*>' in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
631 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols for which you have formally
632 declared semantic type tags.
633
634 2. Place `<>' in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
635 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols without declared semantic
636 type tags.
637
638 Bison no longer supports the `%symbol-default' notation from Bison 2.3a.
639 `<*>' and `<>' combined achieve the same effect with one exception: Bison no
640 longer applies any %destructor to a mid-rule value if that mid-rule value is
641 not actually ever referenced using either $$ or $n in a semantic action.
642
643 The default %destructor's and %printer's are experimental. More user
644 feedback will help to determine whether they should become permanent
645 features.
646
647 See the section `Freeing Discarded Symbols' in the Bison manual for further
648 details.
649
650** %left, %right, and %nonassoc can now declare token numbers. This is required
651 by POSIX. However, see the end of section `Operator Precedence' in the Bison
652 manual for a caveat concerning the treatment of literal strings.
653
654** The nonfunctional --no-parser, -n, and %no-parser options have been
655 completely removed from Bison.
656
657* Changes in version 2.3a, 2006-09-13:
658
659** Instead of %union, you can define and use your own union type
660 YYSTYPE if your grammar contains at least one <type> tag.
661 Your YYSTYPE need not be a macro; it can be a typedef.
662 This change is for compatibility with other Yacc implementations,
663 and is required by POSIX.
664
665** Locations columns and lines start at 1.
666 In accordance with the GNU Coding Standards and Emacs.
667
668** You may now declare per-type and default %destructor's and %printer's:
669
670 For example:
671
672 %union { char *string; }
673 %token <string> STRING1
674 %token <string> STRING2
675 %type <string> string1
676 %type <string> string2
677 %union { char character; }
678 %token <character> CHR
679 %type <character> chr
680 %destructor { free ($$); } %symbol-default
681 %destructor { free ($$); printf ("%d", @$.first_line); } STRING1 string1
682 %destructor { } <character>
683
684 guarantees that, when the parser discards any user-defined symbol that has a
685 semantic type tag other than `<character>', it passes its semantic value to
686 `free'. However, when the parser discards a `STRING1' or a `string1', it
687 also prints its line number to `stdout'. It performs only the second
688 `%destructor' in this case, so it invokes `free' only once.
689
690 [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the default
691 %destructor's and %printer's were experimental, and they were rewritten in
692 future versions.]
693
694** Except for LALR(1) parsers in C with POSIX Yacc emulation enabled (with `-y',
695 `--yacc', or `%yacc'), Bison no longer generates #define statements for
696 associating token numbers with token names. Removing the #define statements
697 helps to sanitize the global namespace during preprocessing, but POSIX Yacc
698 requires them. Bison still generates an enum for token names in all cases.
699
700** Handling of traditional Yacc prologue blocks is now more consistent but
701 potentially incompatible with previous releases of Bison.
702
703 As before, you declare prologue blocks in your grammar file with the
704 `%{ ... %}' syntax. To generate the pre-prologue, Bison concatenates all
705 prologue blocks that you've declared before the first %union. To generate
706 the post-prologue, Bison concatenates all prologue blocks that you've
707 declared after the first %union.
708
709 Previous releases of Bison inserted the pre-prologue into both the header
710 file and the code file in all cases except for LALR(1) parsers in C. In the
711 latter case, Bison inserted it only into the code file. For parsers in C++,
712 the point of insertion was before any token definitions (which associate
713 token numbers with names). For parsers in C, the point of insertion was
714 after the token definitions.
715
716 Now, Bison never inserts the pre-prologue into the header file. In the code
717 file, it always inserts it before the token definitions.
718
719** Bison now provides a more flexible alternative to the traditional Yacc
720 prologue blocks: %before-header, %start-header, %end-header, and
721 %after-header.
722
723 For example, the following declaration order in the grammar file reflects the
724 order in which Bison will output these code blocks. However, you are free to
725 declare these code blocks in your grammar file in whatever order is most
726 convenient for you:
727
728 %before-header {
729 /* Bison treats this block like a pre-prologue block: it inserts it into
730 * the code file before the contents of the header file. It does *not*
731 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to put
732 * #include's that you want at the top of your code file. A common
733 * example is `#include "system.h"'. */
734 }
735 %start-header {
736 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
737 * In both files, the point of insertion is before any Bison-generated
738 * token, semantic type, location type, and class definitions. This is a
739 * good place to define %union dependencies, for example. */
740 }
741 %union {
742 /* Unlike the traditional Yacc prologue blocks, the output order for the
743 * new %*-header blocks is not affected by their declaration position
744 * relative to any %union in the grammar file. */
745 }
746 %end-header {
747 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
748 * In both files, the point of insertion is after the Bison-generated
749 * definitions. This is a good place to declare or define public
750 * functions or data structures that depend on the Bison-generated
751 * definitions. */
752 }
753 %after-header {
754 /* Bison treats this block like a post-prologue block: it inserts it into
755 * the code file after the contents of the header file. It does *not*
756 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to declare or
757 * define internal functions or data structures that depend on the
758 * Bison-generated definitions. */
759 }
760
761 If you have multiple occurrences of any one of the above declarations, Bison
762 will concatenate the contents in declaration order.
763
764 [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the prologue
765 alternatives were experimental, and they were rewritten in future versions.]
766
767** The option `--report=look-ahead' has been changed to `--report=lookahead'.
768 The old spelling still works, but is not documented and may be removed
769 in a future release.
770
771* Changes in version 2.3, 2006-06-05:
772
773** GLR grammars should now use `YYRECOVERING ()' instead of `YYRECOVERING',
774 for compatibility with LALR(1) grammars.
775
776** It is now documented that any definition of YYSTYPE or YYLTYPE should
777 be to a type name that does not contain parentheses or brackets.
778
779* Changes in version 2.2, 2006-05-19:
780
781** The distribution terms for all Bison-generated parsers now permit
782 using the parsers in nonfree programs. Previously, this permission
783 was granted only for Bison-generated LALR(1) parsers in C.
784
785** %name-prefix changes the namespace name in C++ outputs.
786
787** The C++ parsers export their token_type.
788
789** Bison now allows multiple %union declarations, and concatenates
790 their contents together.
791
792** New warning: unused values
793 Right-hand side symbols whose values are not used are reported,
794 if the symbols have destructors. For instance:
795
796 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; }
797 | exp "+" exp
798 ;
799
800 will trigger a warning about $$ and $5 in the first rule, and $3 in
801 the second ($1 is copied to $$ by the default rule). This example
802 most likely contains three errors, and could be rewritten as:
803
804 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp
805 { $$ = $1 ? $3 : $5; free ($1 ? $5 : $3); free ($1); }
806 | exp "+" exp
807 { $$ = $1 ? $1 : $3; if ($1) free ($3); }
808 ;
809
810 However, if the original actions were really intended, memory leaks
811 and all, the warnings can be suppressed by letting Bison believe the
812 values are used, e.g.:
813
814 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; (void) ($$, $5); }
815 | exp "+" exp { $$ = $1; (void) $3; }
816 ;
817
818 If there are mid-rule actions, the warning is issued if no action
819 uses it. The following triggers no warning: $1 and $3 are used.
820
821 exp: exp { push ($1); } '+' exp { push ($3); sum (); };
822
823 The warning is intended to help catching lost values and memory leaks.
824 If a value is ignored, its associated memory typically is not reclaimed.
825
826** %destructor vs. YYABORT, YYACCEPT, and YYERROR.
827 Destructors are now called when user code invokes YYABORT, YYACCEPT,
828 and YYERROR, for all objects on the stack, other than objects
829 corresponding to the right-hand side of the current rule.
830
831** %expect, %expect-rr
832 Incorrect numbers of expected conflicts are now actual errors,
833 instead of warnings.
834
835** GLR, YACC parsers.
836 The %parse-params are available in the destructors (and the
837 experimental printers) as per the documentation.
838
839** Bison now warns if it finds a stray `$' or `@' in an action.
840
841** %require "VERSION"
842 This specifies that the grammar file depends on features implemented
843 in Bison version VERSION or higher.
844
845** lalr1.cc: The token and value types are now class members.
846 The tokens were defined as free form enums and cpp macros. YYSTYPE
847 was defined as a free form union. They are now class members:
848 tokens are enumerations of the `yy::parser::token' struct, and the
849 semantic values have the `yy::parser::semantic_type' type.
850
851 If you do not want or can update to this scheme, the directive
852 `%define "global_tokens_and_yystype" "1"' triggers the global
853 definition of tokens and YYSTYPE. This change is suitable both
854 for previous releases of Bison, and this one.
855
856 If you wish to update, then make sure older version of Bison will
857 fail using `%require "2.2"'.
858
859** DJGPP support added.
860\f
861* Changes in version 2.1, 2005-09-16:
862
863** The C++ lalr1.cc skeleton supports %lex-param.
864
865** Bison-generated parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like
866 "syntax error" into languages other than English. The default
867 language is still English. For details, please see the new
868 Internationalization section of the Bison manual. Software
869 distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file. Thanks to
870 Bruno Haible for this new feature.
871
872** Wording in the Bison-generated parsers has been changed slightly to
873 simplify translation. In particular, the message "memory exhausted"
874 has replaced "parser stack overflow", as the old message was not
875 always accurate for modern Bison-generated parsers.
876
877** Destructors are now called when the parser aborts, for all symbols left
878 behind on the stack. Also, the start symbol is now destroyed after a
879 successful parse. In both cases, the behavior was formerly inconsistent.
880
881** When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated parsers no longer
882 quote the literal strings associated with tokens. For example, for
883 a syntax error associated with '%token NUM "number"' they might
884 print 'syntax error, unexpected number' instead of 'syntax error,
885 unexpected "number"'.
886\f
887* Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25:
888
889** Possibly-incompatible changes
890
891 - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
892 (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
893 problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection. You can "#define
894 YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read
895 the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.
896
897 - Error token location.
898 During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
899 to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
900 the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
901 recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
902
903 - Semicolon changes:
904 . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
905 . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
906
907 - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
908 string literals. They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
909 dropped support for them. Better diagnostics are now generated if
910 forget a closing quote.
911
912 - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
913
914** New features
915
916 - GLR grammars now support locations.
917
918 - New directive: %initial-action.
919 This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
920 initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
921
922 - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
923 reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.
924
925 - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., `%token FOO 0x12d'.
926 This is a GNU extension.
927
928 - The option `--report=lookahead' was changed to `--report=look-ahead'.
929 [However, this was changed back after 2.3.]
930
931 - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
932
933 - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
934 yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
935
936** Bug fixes
937
938 - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
939 This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
940 reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
941 are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts). However, in future
942 versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
943 these violations will become errors again.
944
945 - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer
946 arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
947
948 - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
949\f
950* Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01:
951
952** The documentation license has been upgraded to version 1.2
953 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
954
955** syntax error processing
956
957 - In Yacc-style parsers YYLLOC_DEFAULT is now used to compute error
958 locations too. This fixes bugs in error-location computation.
959
960 - %destructor
961 It is now possible to reclaim the memory associated to symbols
962 discarded during error recovery. This feature is still experimental.
963
964 - %error-verbose
965 This new directive is preferred over YYERROR_VERBOSE.
966
967 - #defining yyerror to steal internal variables is discouraged.
968 It is not guaranteed to work forever.
969
970** POSIX conformance
971
972 - Semicolons are once again optional at the end of grammar rules.
973 This reverts to the behavior of Bison 1.33 and earlier, and improves
974 compatibility with Yacc.
975
976 - `parse error' -> `syntax error'
977 Bison now uniformly uses the term `syntax error'; formerly, the code
978 and manual sometimes used the term `parse error' instead. POSIX
979 requires `syntax error' in diagnostics, and it was thought better to
980 be consistent.
981
982 - The documentation now emphasizes that yylex and yyerror must be
983 declared before use. C99 requires this.
984
985 - Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like UCNs and
986 backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires.
987
988 - File names are properly escaped in C output. E.g., foo\bar.y is
989 output as "foo\\bar.y".
990
991 - Yacc command and library now available
992 The Bison distribution now installs a `yacc' command, as POSIX requires.
993 Also, Bison now installs a small library liby.a containing
994 implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions.
995 This library is normally not useful, but POSIX requires it.
996
997 - Type clashes now generate warnings, not errors.
998
999 - If the user does not define YYSTYPE as a macro, Bison now declares it
1000 using typedef instead of defining it as a macro.
1001 For consistency, YYLTYPE is also declared instead of defined.
1002
1003** Other compatibility issues
1004
1005 - %union directives can now have a tag before the `{', e.g., the
1006 directive `%union foo {...}' now generates the C code
1007 `typedef union foo { ... } YYSTYPE;'; this is for Yacc compatibility.
1008 The default union tag is `YYSTYPE', for compatibility with Solaris 9 Yacc.
1009 For consistency, YYLTYPE's struct tag is now `YYLTYPE' not `yyltype'.
1010 This is for compatibility with both Yacc and Bison 1.35.
1011
1012 - `;' is output before the terminating `}' of an action, for
1013 compatibility with Bison 1.35.
1014
1015 - Bison now uses a Yacc-style format for conflict reports, e.g.,
1016 `conflicts: 2 shift/reduce, 1 reduce/reduce'.
1017
1018 - `yystype' and `yyltype' are now obsolescent macros instead of being
1019 typedefs or tags; they are no longer documented and are planned to be
1020 withdrawn in a future release.
1021
1022** GLR parser notes
1023
1024 - GLR and inline
1025 Users of Bison have to decide how they handle the portability of the
1026 C keyword `inline'.
1027
1028 - `parsing stack overflow...' -> `parser stack overflow'
1029 GLR parsers now report `parser stack overflow' as per the Bison manual.
1030
1031** Bison now warns if it detects conflicting outputs to the same file,
1032 e.g., it generates a warning for `bison -d -o foo.h foo.y' since
1033 that command outputs both code and header to foo.h.
1034
1035** #line in output files
1036 - --no-line works properly.
1037
1038** Bison can no longer be built by a K&R C compiler; it requires C89 or
1039 later to be built. This change originally took place a few versions
1040 ago, but nobody noticed until we recently asked someone to try
1041 building Bison with a K&R C compiler.
1042\f
1043* Changes in version 1.75, 2002-10-14:
1044
1045** Bison should now work on 64-bit hosts.
1046
1047** Indonesian translation thanks to Tedi Heriyanto.
1048
1049** GLR parsers
1050 Fix spurious parse errors.
1051
1052** Pure parsers
1053 Some people redefine yyerror to steal yyparse' private variables.
1054 Reenable this trick until an official feature replaces it.
1055
1056** Type Clashes
1057 In agreement with POSIX and with other Yaccs, leaving a default
1058 action is valid when $$ is untyped, and $1 typed:
1059
1060 untyped: ... typed;
1061
1062 but the converse remains an error:
1063
1064 typed: ... untyped;
1065
1066** Values of mid-rule actions
1067 The following code:
1068
1069 foo: { ... } { $$ = $1; } ...
1070
1071 was incorrectly rejected: $1 is defined in the second mid-rule
1072 action, and is equal to the $$ of the first mid-rule action.
1073\f
1074* Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04:
1075
1076** GLR parsing
1077 The declaration
1078 %glr-parser
1079 causes Bison to produce a Generalized LR (GLR) parser, capable of handling
1080 almost any context-free grammar, ambiguous or not. The new declarations
1081 %dprec and %merge on grammar rules allow parse-time resolution of
1082 ambiguities. Contributed by Paul Hilfinger.
1083
1084 Unfortunately Bison 1.50 does not work properly on 64-bit hosts
1085 like the Alpha, so please stick to 32-bit hosts for now.
1086
1087** Output Directory
1088 When not in Yacc compatibility mode, when the output file was not
1089 specified, running `bison foo/bar.y' created `foo/bar.c'. It
1090 now creates `bar.c'.
1091
1092** Undefined token
1093 The undefined token was systematically mapped to 2 which prevented
1094 the use of 2 by the user. This is no longer the case.
1095
1096** Unknown token numbers
1097 If yylex returned an out of range value, yyparse could die. This is
1098 no longer the case.
1099
1100** Error token
1101 According to POSIX, the error token must be 256.
1102 Bison extends this requirement by making it a preference: *if* the
1103 user specified that one of her tokens is numbered 256, then error
1104 will be mapped onto another number.
1105
1106** Verbose error messages
1107 They no longer report `..., expecting error or...' for states where
1108 error recovery is possible.
1109
1110** End token
1111 Defaults to `$end' instead of `$'.
1112
1113** Error recovery now conforms to documentation and to POSIX
1114 When a Bison-generated parser encounters a syntax error, it now pops
1115 the stack until it finds a state that allows shifting the error
1116 token. Formerly, it popped the stack until it found a state that
1117 allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the
1118 error token. The new behavior has long been the documented behavior,
1119 and has long been required by POSIX. For more details, please see
1120 Paul Eggert, "Reductions during Bison error handling" (2002-05-20)
1121 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2002-05/msg00038.html>.
1122
1123** Traces
1124 Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.
1125
1126** Larger grammars
1127 Larger grammars are now supported (larger token numbers, larger grammar
1128 size (= sum of the LHS and RHS lengths), larger LALR tables).
1129 Formerly, many of these numbers ran afoul of 16-bit limits;
1130 now these limits are 32 bits on most hosts.
1131
1132** Explicit initial rule
1133 Bison used to play hacks with the initial rule, which the user does
1134 not write. It is now explicit, and visible in the reports and
1135 graphs as rule 0.
1136
1137** Useless rules
1138 Before, Bison reported the useless rules, but, although not used,
1139 included them in the parsers. They are now actually removed.
1140
1141** Useless rules, useless nonterminals
1142 They are now reported, as a warning, with their locations.
1143
1144** Rules never reduced
1145 Rules that can never be reduced because of conflicts are now
1146 reported.
1147
1148** Incorrect `Token not used'
1149 On a grammar such as
1150
1151 %token useless useful
1152 %%
1153 exp: '0' %prec useful;
1154
1155 where a token was used to set the precedence of the last rule,
1156 bison reported both `useful' and `useless' as useless tokens.
1157
1158** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31
1159 as they caused too many portability hassles.
1160
1161** Default locations
1162 By an accident of design, the default computation of @$ was
1163 performed after another default computation was performed: @$ = @1.
1164 The latter is now removed: YYLLOC_DEFAULT is fully responsible of
1165 the computation of @$.
1166
1167** Token end-of-file
1168 The token end of file may be specified by the user, in which case,
1169 the user symbol is used in the reports, the graphs, and the verbose
1170 error messages instead of `$end', which remains being the default.
1171 For instance
1172 %token MYEOF 0
1173 or
1174 %token MYEOF 0 "end of file"
1175
1176** Semantic parser
1177 This old option, which has been broken for ages, is removed.
1178
1179** New translations
1180 Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Alexandre Folle de Menezes.
1181 Croatian, thanks to Denis Lackovic.
1182
1183** Incorrect token definitions
1184 When given `%token 'a' "A"', Bison used to output `#define 'a' 65'.
1185
1186** Token definitions as enums
1187 Tokens are output both as the traditional #define's, and, provided
1188 the compiler supports ANSI C or is a C++ compiler, as enums.
1189 This lets debuggers display names instead of integers.
1190
1191** Reports
1192 In addition to --verbose, bison supports --report=THINGS, which
1193 produces additional information:
1194 - itemset
1195 complete the core item sets with their closure
1196 - lookahead [changed to `look-ahead' in 1.875e through 2.3, but changed back]
1197 explicitly associate lookahead tokens to items
1198 - solved
1199 describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
1200 Bison used to systematically output this information on top of
1201 the report. Solved conflicts are now attached to their states.
1202
1203** Type clashes
1204 Previous versions don't complain when there is a type clash on
1205 the default action if the rule has a mid-rule action, such as in:
1206
1207 %type <foo> bar
1208 %%
1209 bar: '0' {} '0';
1210
1211 This is fixed.
1212
1213** GNU M4 is now required when using Bison.
1214\f
1215* Changes in version 1.35, 2002-03-25:
1216
1217** C Skeleton
1218 Some projects use Bison's C parser with C++ compilers, and define
1219 YYSTYPE as a class. The recent adjustment of C parsers for data
1220 alignment and 64 bit architectures made this impossible.
1221
1222 Because for the time being no real solution for C++ parser
1223 generation exists, kludges were implemented in the parser to
1224 maintain this use. In the future, when Bison has C++ parsers, this
1225 kludge will be disabled.
1226
1227 This kludge also addresses some C++ problems when the stack was
1228 extended.
1229\f
1230* Changes in version 1.34, 2002-03-12:
1231
1232** File name clashes are detected
1233 $ bison foo.y -d -o foo.x
1234 fatal error: header and parser would both be named `foo.x'
1235
1236** A missing `;' at the end of a rule triggers a warning
1237 In accordance with POSIX, and in agreement with other
1238 Yacc implementations, Bison will mandate this semicolon in the near
1239 future. This eases the implementation of a Bison parser of Bison
1240 grammars by making this grammar LALR(1) instead of LR(2). To
1241 facilitate the transition, this release introduces a warning.
1242
1243** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31, as they caused too
1244 many portability hassles.
1245
1246** DJGPP support added.
1247
1248** Fix test suite portability problems.
1249\f
1250* Changes in version 1.33, 2002-02-07:
1251
1252** Fix C++ issues
1253 Groff could not be compiled for the definition of size_t was lacking
1254 under some conditions.
1255
1256** Catch invalid @n
1257 As is done with $n.
1258\f
1259* Changes in version 1.32, 2002-01-23:
1260
1261** Fix Yacc output file names
1262
1263** Portability fixes
1264
1265** Italian, Dutch translations
1266\f
1267* Changes in version 1.31, 2002-01-14:
1268
1269** Many Bug Fixes
1270
1271** GNU Gettext and %expect
1272 GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
1273 Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
1274 too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
1275 does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
1276
1277** Use of alloca in parsers
1278 If YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA is defined to 0, then the parsers will use
1279 malloc exclusively. Since 1.29, but was not NEWS'ed.
1280
1281 alloca is used only when compiled with GCC, to avoid portability
1282 problems as on AIX.
1283
1284** yyparse now returns 2 if memory is exhausted; formerly it dumped core.
1285
1286** When the generated parser lacks debugging code, YYDEBUG is now 0
1287 (as POSIX requires) instead of being undefined.
1288
1289** User Actions
1290 Bison has always permitted actions such as { $$ = $1 }: it adds the
1291 ending semicolon. Now if in Yacc compatibility mode, the semicolon
1292 is no longer output: one has to write { $$ = $1; }.
1293
1294** Better C++ compliance
1295 The output parsers try to respect C++ namespaces.
1296 [This turned out to be a failed experiment, and it was reverted later.]
1297
1298** Reduced Grammars
1299 Fixed bugs when reporting useless nonterminals.
1300
1301** 64 bit hosts
1302 The parsers work properly on 64 bit hosts.
1303
1304** Error messages
1305 Some calls to strerror resulted in scrambled or missing error messages.
1306
1307** %expect
1308 When the number of shift/reduce conflicts is correct, don't issue
1309 any warning.
1310
1311** The verbose report includes the rule line numbers.
1312
1313** Rule line numbers are fixed in traces.
1314
1315** Swedish translation
1316
1317** Parse errors
1318 Verbose parse error messages from the parsers are better looking.
1319 Before: parse error: unexpected `'/'', expecting `"number"' or `'-'' or `'(''
1320 Now: parse error: unexpected '/', expecting "number" or '-' or '('
1321
1322** Fixed parser memory leaks.
1323 When the generated parser was using malloc to extend its stacks, the
1324 previous allocations were not freed.
1325
1326** Fixed verbose output file.
1327 Some newlines were missing.
1328 Some conflicts in state descriptions were missing.
1329
1330** Fixed conflict report.
1331 Option -v was needed to get the result.
1332
1333** %expect
1334 Was not used.
1335 Mismatches are errors, not warnings.
1336
1337** Fixed incorrect processing of some invalid input.
1338
1339** Fixed CPP guards: 9foo.h uses BISON_9FOO_H instead of 9FOO_H.
1340
1341** Fixed some typos in the documentation.
1342
1343** %token MY_EOF 0 is supported.
1344 Before, MY_EOF was silently renumbered as 257.
1345
1346** doc/refcard.tex is updated.
1347
1348** %output, %file-prefix, %name-prefix.
1349 New.
1350
1351** --output
1352 New, aliasing `--output-file'.
1353\f
1354* Changes in version 1.30, 2001-10-26:
1355
1356** `--defines' and `--graph' have now an optional argument which is the
1357 output file name. `-d' and `-g' do not change; they do not take any
1358 argument.
1359
1360** `%source_extension' and `%header_extension' are removed, failed
1361 experiment.
1362
1363** Portability fixes.
1364\f
1365* Changes in version 1.29, 2001-09-07:
1366
1367** The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used
1368 with common autoconfiguration schemes. If you still use ancient compilers
1369 that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option
1370 `-Dconst='. autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this.
1371
1372** Added `-g' and `--graph'.
1373
1374** The Bison manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
1375
1376** The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension.
1377
1378** Russian translation added.
1379
1380** NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
1381
1382** Added the old Bison reference card.
1383
1384** Added `--locations' and `%locations'.
1385
1386** Added `-S' and `--skeleton'.
1387
1388** `%raw', `-r', `--raw' is disabled.
1389
1390** Special characters are escaped when output. This solves the problems
1391 of the #line lines with path names including backslashes.
1392
1393** New directives.
1394 `%yacc', `%fixed_output_files', `%defines', `%no_parser', `%verbose',
1395 `%debug', `%source_extension' and `%header_extension'.
1396
1397** @$
1398 Automatic location tracking.
1399\f
1400* Changes in version 1.28, 1999-07-06:
1401
1402** Should compile better now with K&R compilers.
1403
1404** Added NLS.
1405
1406** Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character.
1407
1408** There is now a FAQ.
1409\f
1410* Changes in version 1.27:
1411
1412** The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on
1413 some systems has been fixed.
1414\f
1415* Changes in version 1.26:
1416
1417** Bison now uses automake.
1418
1419** New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>.
1420
1421** Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258.
1422
1423** Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable.
1424
1425** A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed.
1426
1427** Problems when closing files should now be reported.
1428
1429** Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do
1430 not provide alloca().
1431\f
1432* Changes in version 1.25, 1995-10-16:
1433
1434** Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading
1435the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it.
1436
1437** Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for
1438example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead
1439of chosing a name like LESSEQ.
1440
1441** The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names
1442and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this
1443table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other
1444purposes.
1445
1446** The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor
1447directives in the parser file.
1448
1449** The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not
1450Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros.
1451
1452** The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including
1453the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine.
1454The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of
1455a switch statement body.
1456\f
1457* Changes in version 1.23:
1458
1459The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be
1460passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should
1461actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable
1462by casting it to the proper pointer type.
1463
1464Line numbers in output file corrected.
1465\f
1466* Changes in version 1.22:
1467
1468--help option added.
1469\f
1470* Changes in version 1.20:
1471
1472Output file does not redefine const for C++.
1473
1474Local Variables:
1475mode: outline
1476End:
1477
1478-----
1479
1480Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1481
1482This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.
1483
1484This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
1485it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
1486the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1487(at your option) any later version.
1488
1489This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1490but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1491MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1492GNU General Public License for more details.
1493
1494You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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