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1 | Bison News | |
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3 | ||
4 | Changes in version 1.49a: | |
5 | ||
6 | * items overflow | |
7 | Bison no longer dumps core when there are too many items, it just | |
8 | dies. | |
9 | ||
10 | \f | |
11 | Changes in version 1.30: | |
12 | ||
13 | * `--defines' and `--graph' have now an optionnal argument which is the | |
14 | output file name. `-d' and `-g' do not change, they do not take any | |
15 | argument. | |
16 | ||
17 | * `%source_extension' and `%header_extension' are removed, failed | |
18 | experiment. | |
19 | ||
20 | * Portability fixes. | |
21 | \f | |
22 | Changes in version 1.29, 2001-09-07: | |
23 | ||
24 | * The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used | |
25 | with common autoconfiguration schemes. If you still use ancient compilers | |
26 | that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option | |
27 | `-Dconst='. autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this. | |
28 | ||
29 | * Added `-g' and `--graph'. | |
30 | ||
31 | * The Bison manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL. | |
32 | ||
33 | * The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension. | |
34 | ||
35 | * Russian translation added. | |
36 | ||
37 | * NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome. | |
38 | ||
39 | * Added the old Bison reference card. | |
40 | ||
41 | * Added `--locations' and `%locations'. | |
42 | ||
43 | * Added `-S' and `--skeleton'. | |
44 | ||
45 | * `%raw', `-r', `--raw' is disabled. | |
46 | ||
47 | * Special characters are escaped when output. This solves the problems | |
48 | of the #line lines with path names including backslashes. | |
49 | ||
50 | * New directives. | |
51 | `%yacc', `%fixed_output_files', `%defines', `%no_parser', `%verbose', | |
52 | `%debug', `%source_extension' and `%header_extension'. | |
53 | ||
54 | * @$ | |
55 | Automatic location tracking. | |
56 | \f | |
57 | Changes in version 1.28, 1999-07-06: | |
58 | ||
59 | * Should compile better now with K&R compilers. | |
60 | ||
61 | * Added NLS. | |
62 | ||
63 | * Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character. | |
64 | ||
65 | * There is now a FAQ. | |
66 | \f | |
67 | Changes in version 1.27: | |
68 | ||
69 | * The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on | |
70 | some systems has been fixed. | |
71 | \f | |
72 | Changes in version 1.26: | |
73 | ||
74 | * Bison now uses automake. | |
75 | ||
76 | * New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>. | |
77 | ||
78 | * Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258. | |
79 | ||
80 | * Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable. | |
81 | ||
82 | * A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed. | |
83 | ||
84 | * Problems when closing files should now be reported. | |
85 | ||
86 | * Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do | |
87 | not provide alloca(). | |
88 | \f | |
89 | Changes in version 1.25, 1995-10-16: | |
90 | ||
91 | * Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading | |
92 | the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it. | |
93 | ||
94 | * Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for | |
95 | example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead | |
96 | of chosing a name like LESSEQ. | |
97 | ||
98 | * The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names | |
99 | and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this | |
100 | table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other | |
101 | purposes. | |
102 | ||
103 | * The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor | |
104 | directives in the parser file. | |
105 | ||
106 | * The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not | |
107 | Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros. | |
108 | ||
109 | * The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including | |
110 | the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine. | |
111 | The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of | |
112 | a switch statement body. | |
113 | \f | |
114 | Changes in version 1.23: | |
115 | ||
116 | The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be | |
117 | passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should | |
118 | actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable | |
119 | by casting it to the proper pointer type. | |
120 | ||
121 | Line numbers in output file corrected. | |
122 | \f | |
123 | Changes in version 1.22: | |
124 | ||
125 | --help option added. | |
126 | \f | |
127 | Changes in version 1.20: | |
128 | ||
129 | Output file does not redefine const for C++. | |
130 | ||
131 | Local Variables: | |
132 | mode: outline | |
133 | End: |