3 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
   5 ** Incompatible changes
 
   9   Support for YYFAIL is removed (deprecated in Bison 2.4.2): use YYERROR.
 
  11   Support for yystype and yyltype is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875):
 
  12   use YYSTYPE and YYLTYPE.
 
  14   Support for YYLEX_PARAM and YYPARSE_PARAM is removed (deprecated in Bison
 
  15   1.875): use %lex-param, %parse-param, or %param.
 
  19 *** Enhancements of the -Werror option
 
  21   The -Werror=CATEGORY option is now recognized, and will treat specified
 
  22   warnings as errors. The warnings need not have been explicitly activated
 
  23   using the -W option, this is similar to what GCC 4.7 does.
 
  25   For example, given the following command line, Bison will treat both
 
  26   warnings related to POSIX Yacc incompatibilities and S/R conflicts as
 
  27   errors (and only those):
 
  29     $ bison -Werror=yacc,error=conflicts-sr input.y
 
  31   If no categories are specified, -Werror will make all active warnings into
 
  32   errors. For example, the following line does the same the previous example:
 
  34     $ bison -Werror -Wnone -Wyacc -Wconflicts-sr input.y
 
  36   (By default -Wconflicts-sr,conflicts-rr,deprecated,other is enabled.)
 
  38   Note that the categories in this -Werror option may not be prefixed with
 
  39   "no-". However, -Wno-error[=CATEGORY] is valid.
 
  41   Note that -y enables -Werror=yacc. Therefore it is now possible to require
 
  42   Yacc-like behavior (e.g., always generate y.tab.c), but to report
 
  43   incompatibilities as warnings: "-y -Wno-error=yacc".
 
  45 *** The display of warnings is now richer
 
  47   The option that controls a given warning is now displayed:
 
  49     foo.y:4.6: warning: type clash on default action: <foo> != <bar> [-Wother]
 
  51   In the case of warnings treated as errors, the prefix is changed from
 
  52   "warning: " to "error: ", and the suffix is displayed, in a manner similar
 
  53   to GCC, as [-Werror=CATEGORY].
 
  55   For instance, where the previous version of Bison would report (and exit
 
  58     bison: warnings being treated as errors
 
  59     input.y:1.1: warning: stray ',' treated as white space
 
  63     input.y:1.1: error: stray ',' treated as white space [-Werror=other]
 
  65 *** Deprecated constructs
 
  67   The new 'deprecated' warning category flags obsolete constructs whose
 
  68   support will be discontinued.  It is enabled by default.  These warnings
 
  69   used to be reported as 'other' warnings.
 
  71 *** Useless semantic types
 
  73   Bison now warns about useless (uninhabited) semantic types.  Since
 
  74   semantic types are not declared to Bison (they are defined in the opaque
 
  75   %union structure), it is %printer/%destructor directives about useless
 
  76   types that trigger the warning:
 
  80     %printer    {} <type1> <type3>
 
  81     %destructor {} <type2> <type4>
 
  83     nterm: term { $$ = $1; };
 
  85     3.28-34: warning: type <type3> is used, but is not associated to any symbol
 
  86     4.28-34: warning: type <type4> is used, but is not associated to any symbol
 
  88 *** Undefined but unused symbols
 
  90   Bison used to raise an error for undefined symbols that are not used in
 
  91   the grammar.  This is now only a warning.
 
  94     %destructor {} symbol2
 
  99 *** Useless destructors or printers
 
 101   Bison now warns about useless destructors or printers.  In the following
 
 102   example, the printer for <type1>, and the destructor for <type2> are
 
 103   useless: all symbols of <type1> (token1) already have a printer, and all
 
 104   symbols of type <type2> (token2) already have a destructor.
 
 106     %token <type1> token1
 
 110     %printer    {} token1 <type1> <type3>
 
 111     %destructor {} token2 <type2> <type4>
 
 115   The warnings and error messages about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce
 
 116   conflicts have been normalized.  For instance on the following foo.y file:
 
 120     exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0';
 
 122   compare the previous version of bison:
 
 125     foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
 
 126     $ bison -Werror foo.y
 
 127     bison: warnings being treated as errors
 
 128     foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
 
 130   with the new behavior:
 
 133     foo.y: warning: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Wconflicts-sr]
 
 134     foo.y: warning: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Wconflicts-rr]
 
 135     $ bison -Werror foo.y
 
 136     foo.y: error: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Werror=conflicts-sr]
 
 137     foo.y: error: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Werror=conflicts-rr]
 
 139   When %expect or %expect-rr is used, such as with bar.y:
 
 144     exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0';
 
 149     bar.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
 
 150     bar.y: expected 0 shift/reduce conflicts
 
 151     bar.y: expected 0 reduce/reduce conflicts
 
 156     bar.y: error: shift/reduce conflicts: 1 found, 0 expected
 
 157     bar.y: error: reduce/reduce conflicts: 2 found, 0 expected
 
 159 ** Additional yylex/yyparse arguments
 
 161   The new directive %param declares additional arguments to both yylex and
 
 162   yyparse.  The %lex-param, %parse-param, and %param directives support one
 
 163   or more arguments.  Instead of
 
 165     %lex-param   {arg1_type *arg1}
 
 166     %lex-param   {arg2_type *arg2}
 
 167     %parse-param {arg1_type *arg1}
 
 168     %parse-param {arg2_type *arg2}
 
 172     %param {arg1_type *arg1} {arg2_type *arg2}
 
 174 ** Java skeleton improvements
 
 176   The constants for token names were moved to the Lexer interface.  Also, it
 
 177   is possible to add code to the parser's constructors using "%code init"
 
 178   and "%define init_throws".
 
 180 ** C++ skeletons improvements
 
 182 *** The parser header is no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
 
 184   Using %defines is now optional.  Without it, the needed support classes
 
 185   are defined in the generated parser, instead of additional files (such as
 
 186   location.hh, position.hh and stack.hh).
 
 188 *** Locations are no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
 
 190   Both lalr1.cc and glr.cc no longer require %location.
 
 192 *** syntax_error exception (lalr1.cc)
 
 194   The C++ parser features a syntax_error exception, which can be
 
 195   thrown from the scanner or from user rules to raise syntax errors.
 
 196   This facilitates reporting errors caught in sub-functions (e.g.,
 
 197   rejecting too large integral literals from a conversion function
 
 198   used by the scanner, or rejecting invalid combinations from a
 
 199   factory invoked by the user actions).
 
 201 ** Variable api.token.prefix
 
 203   The variable api.token.prefix changes the way tokens are identified in
 
 204   the generated files.  This is especially useful to avoid collisions
 
 205   with identifiers in the target language.  For instance
 
 207     %token FILE for ERROR
 
 208     %define api.token.prefix "TOK_"
 
 210     start: FILE for ERROR;
 
 212   will generate the definition of the symbols TOK_FILE, TOK_for, and
 
 213   TOK_ERROR in the generated sources.  In particular, the scanner must
 
 214   use these prefixed token names, although the grammar itself still
 
 215   uses the short names (as in the sample rule given above).
 
 217 ** Renamed %define variables
 
 219   The following variables have been renamed for consistency.  Backward
 
 220   compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended.
 
 222     lr.default-reductions      -> lr.default-reduction
 
 223     lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state
 
 224     namespace                  -> api.namespace
 
 226 ** Variable parse.error
 
 228   This variable controls the verbosity of error messages.  The use of the
 
 229   %error-verbose directive is deprecated in favor of "%define parse.error
 
 232 ** Semantic predicates
 
 234   The new, experimental, semantic-predicate feature allows actions of the
 
 235   form "%?{ BOOLEAN-EXPRESSION }", which cause syntax errors (as for
 
 236   YYERROR) if the expression evaluates to 0, and are evaluated immediately
 
 237   in GLR parsers, rather than being deferred.  The result is that they allow
 
 238   the programmer to prune possible parses based on the values of run-time
 
 241 ** The directive %expect-rr is now an error in non GLR mode
 
 243   It used to be an error only if used in non GLR mode, _and_ if there are
 
 244   reduce/reduce conflicts.
 
 246 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.7 (2012-12-12) [stable]
 
 250   Warnings about uninitialized yylloc in yyparse have been fixed.
 
 252   Restored C90 compliance (yet no report was ever made).
 
 254 ** Diagnostics are improved
 
 256 *** Changes in the format of error messages
 
 258   This used to be the format of many error reports:
 
 260     input.y:2.7-12: %type redeclaration for exp
 
 261     input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
 
 265     input.y:2.7-12: error: %type redeclaration for exp
 
 266     input.y:1.7-12:     previous declaration
 
 268 *** New format for error reports: carets
 
 270   Caret errors have been added to Bison:
 
 272     input.y:2.7-12: error: %type redeclaration for exp
 
 275     input.y:1.7-12:     previous declaration
 
 281     input.y:3.20-23: error: ambiguous reference: '$exp'
 
 282      exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
 
 284     input.y:3.1-3:       refers to: $exp at $$
 
 285      exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
 
 287     input.y:3.6-8:       refers to: $exp at $1
 
 288      exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
 
 290     input.y:3.14-16:     refers to: $exp at $3
 
 291      exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
 
 294   The default behaviour for now is still not to display these unless
 
 295   explictly asked with -fcaret (or -fall). However, in a later release, it
 
 296   will be made the default behavior (but may still be deactivated with
 
 299 ** New value for %define variable: api.pure full
 
 301   The %define variable api.pure requests a pure (reentrant) parser. However,
 
 302   for historical reasons, using it in a location-tracking Yacc parser
 
 303   resulted in a yyerror function that did not take a location as a
 
 304   parameter. With this new value, the user may request a better pure parser,
 
 305   where yyerror does take a location as a parameter (in location-tracking
 
 308   The use of "%define api.pure true" is deprecated in favor of this new
 
 309   "%define api.pure full".
 
 311 ** New %define variable: api.location.type (glr.cc, lalr1.cc, lalr1.java)
 
 313   The %define variable api.location.type defines the name of the type to use
 
 314   for locations.  When defined, Bison no longer generates the position.hh
 
 315   and location.hh files, nor does the parser will include them: the user is
 
 316   then responsible to define her type.
 
 318   This can be used in programs with several parsers to factor their location
 
 319   and position files: let one of them generate them, and the others just use
 
 322   This feature was actually introduced, but not documented, in Bison 2.5,
 
 323   under the name "location_type" (which is maintained for backward
 
 326   For consistency, lalr1.java's %define variables location_type and
 
 327   position_type are deprecated in favor of api.location.type and
 
 330 ** Exception safety (lalr1.cc)
 
 332   The parse function now catches exceptions, uses the %destructors to
 
 333   release memory (the lookahead symbol and the symbols pushed on the stack)
 
 334   before re-throwing the exception.
 
 336   This feature is somewhat experimental.  User feedback would be
 
 339 ** Graph improvements in DOT and XSLT
 
 341   The graphical presentation of the states is more readable: their shape is
 
 342   now rectangular, the state number is clearly displayed, and the items are
 
 343   numbered and left-justified.
 
 345   The reductions are now explicitly represented as transitions to other
 
 346   diamond shaped nodes.
 
 348   These changes are present in both --graph output and xml2dot.xsl XSLT
 
 349   processing, with minor (documented) differences.
 
 351 ** %language is no longer an experimental feature.
 
 353   The introduction of this feature, in 2.4, was four years ago. The
 
 354   --language option and the %language directive are no longer experimental.
 
 358   The sections about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts resolution
 
 359   have been fixed and extended.
 
 361   Although introduced more than four years ago, XML and Graphviz reports
 
 362   were not properly documented.
 
 364   The translation of mid-rule actions is now described.
 
 366 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.5 (2012-11-07) [stable]
 
 368   We consider compiler warnings about Bison generated parsers to be bugs.
 
 369   Rather than working around them in your own project, please consider
 
 370   reporting them to us.
 
 374   Warnings about uninitialized yylval and/or yylloc for push parsers with a
 
 375   pure interface have been fixed for GCC 4.0 up to 4.8, and Clang 2.9 to
 
 378   Other issues in the test suite have been addressed.
 
 380   Nul characters are correctly displayed in error messages.
 
 382   When possible, yylloc is correctly initialized before calling yylex.  It
 
 383   is no longer necessary to initialize it in the %initial-action.
 
 385 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.4 (2012-10-23) [stable]
 
 387   Bison 2.6.3's --version was incorrect.  This release fixes this issue.
 
 389 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.3 (2012-10-22) [stable]
 
 393   Bugs and portability issues in the test suite have been fixed.
 
 395   Some errors in translations have been addressed, and --help now directs
 
 396   users to the appropriate place to report them.
 
 398   Stray Info files shipped by accident are removed.
 
 400   Incorrect definitions of YY_, issued by yacc.c when no parser header is
 
 401   generated, are removed.
 
 403   All the generated headers are self-contained.
 
 405 ** Header guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
 
 407   In order to avoid collisions, the header guards are now
 
 408   YY_<PREFIX>_<FILE>_INCLUDED, instead of merely <PREFIX>_<FILE>.
 
 409   For instance the header generated from
 
 411     %define api.prefix "calc"
 
 412     %defines "lib/parse.h"
 
 414   will use YY_CALC_LIB_PARSE_H_INCLUDED as guard.
 
 416 ** Fix compiler warnings in the generated parser (yacc.c, glr.c)
 
 418   The compilation of pure parsers (%define api.pure) can trigger GCC
 
 421     input.c: In function 'yyparse':
 
 422     input.c:1503:12: warning: 'yylval' may be used uninitialized in this
 
 423                               function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
 
 427   This is now fixed; pragmas to avoid these warnings are no longer needed.
 
 429   Warnings from clang ("equality comparison with extraneous parentheses" and
 
 430   "function declared 'noreturn' should not return") have also been
 
 433 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.2 (2012-08-03) [stable]
 
 437   Buffer overruns, complaints from Flex, and portability issues in the test
 
 438   suite have been fixed.
 
 440 ** Spaces in %lex- and %parse-param (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
 
 442   Trailing end-of-lines in %parse-param or %lex-param would result in
 
 443   invalid C++.  This is fixed.
 
 445 ** Spurious spaces and end-of-lines
 
 447   The generated files no longer end (nor start) with empty lines.
 
 449 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.1 (2012-07-30) [stable]
 
 451  Bison no longer executes user-specified M4 code when processing a grammar.
 
 455   In addition to the removal of the features announced in Bison 2.6, the
 
 456   next major release will remove the "Temporary hack for adding a semicolon
 
 457   to the user action", as announced in the release 2.5.  Instead of:
 
 459     exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
 
 463     exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
 
 467 *** Type names are now properly escaped.
 
 469 *** glr.cc: set_debug_level and debug_level work as expected.
 
 471 *** Stray @ or $ in actions
 
 473   While Bison used to warn about stray $ or @ in action rules, it did not
 
 474   for other actions such as printers, destructors, or initial actions.  It
 
 477 ** Type names in actions
 
 479   For consistency with rule actions, it is now possible to qualify $$ by a
 
 480   type-name in destructors, printers, and initial actions.  For instance:
 
 482     %printer { fprintf (yyo, "(%d, %f)", $<ival>$, $<fval>$); } <*> <>;
 
 484   will display two values for each typed and untyped symbol (provided
 
 485   that YYSTYPE has both "ival" and "fval" fields).
 
 487 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2012-07-19) [stable]
 
 491   The next major release of Bison will drop support for the following
 
 492   deprecated features.  Please report disagreements to bug-bison@gnu.org.
 
 496   Support for generating parsers in K&R C will be removed.  Parsers
 
 497   generated for C support ISO C90, and are tested with ISO C99 and ISO C11
 
 500 *** Features deprecated since Bison 1.875
 
 502   The definitions of yystype and yyltype will be removed; use YYSTYPE and
 
 505   YYPARSE_PARAM and YYLEX_PARAM, deprecated in favor of %parse-param and
 
 506   %lex-param, will no longer be supported.
 
 508   Support for the preprocessor symbol YYERROR_VERBOSE will be removed, use
 
 511 *** The generated header will be included (yacc.c)
 
 513   Instead of duplicating the content of the generated header (definition of
 
 514   YYSTYPE, yyparse declaration etc.), the generated parser will include it,
 
 515   as is already the case for GLR or C++ parsers.  This change is deferred
 
 516   because existing versions of ylwrap (e.g., Automake 1.12.1) do not support
 
 519 ** Generated Parser Headers
 
 521 *** Guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
 
 523   The generated headers are now guarded, as is already the case for C++
 
 524   parsers (lalr1.cc).  For instance, with --defines=foo.h:
 
 529     #endif /* !YY_FOO_H  */
 
 531 *** New declarations (yacc.c, glr.c)
 
 533   The generated header now declares yydebug and yyparse.  Both honor
 
 534   --name-prefix=bar_, and yield
 
 536     int bar_parse (void);
 
 540     #define yyparse bar_parse
 
 543   in order to facilitate the inclusion of several parser headers inside a
 
 544   single compilation unit.
 
 546 *** Exported symbols in C++
 
 548   The symbols YYTOKEN_TABLE and YYERROR_VERBOSE, which were defined in the
 
 549   header, are removed, as they prevent the possibility of including several
 
 550   generated headers from a single compilation unit.
 
 554   For the same reasons, the undocumented and unused macro YYLSP_NEEDED is no
 
 557 ** New %define variable: api.prefix
 
 559   Now that the generated headers are more complete and properly protected
 
 560   against multiple inclusions, constant names, such as YYSTYPE are a
 
 561   problem.  While yyparse and others are properly renamed by %name-prefix,
 
 562   YYSTYPE, YYDEBUG and others have never been affected by it.  Because it
 
 563   would introduce backward compatibility issues in projects not expecting
 
 564   YYSTYPE to be renamed, instead of changing the behavior of %name-prefix,
 
 565   it is deprecated in favor of a new %define variable: api.prefix.
 
 567   The following examples compares both:
 
 569     %name-prefix "bar_"               | %define api.prefix "bar_"
 
 570     %token <ival> FOO                   %token <ival> FOO
 
 571     %union { int ival; }                %union { int ival; }
 
 577     #ifndef BAR_FOO_H                   #ifndef BAR_FOO_H
 
 578     # define BAR_FOO_H                  # define BAR_FOO_H
 
 580     /* Enabling traces.  */             /* Enabling traces.  */
 
 581     # ifndef YYDEBUG                  | # ifndef BAR_DEBUG
 
 582                                       > #  if defined YYDEBUG
 
 584                                       > #    define BAR_DEBUG 1
 
 586                                       > #    define BAR_DEBUG 0
 
 589     #  define YYDEBUG 0               | #   define BAR_DEBUG 0
 
 593     # if YYDEBUG                      | # if BAR_DEBUG
 
 594     extern int bar_debug;               extern int bar_debug;
 
 597     /* Tokens.  */                      /* Tokens.  */
 
 598     # ifndef YYTOKENTYPE              | # ifndef BAR_TOKENTYPE
 
 599     #  define YYTOKENTYPE             | #  define BAR_TOKENTYPE
 
 600        enum yytokentype {             |    enum bar_tokentype {
 
 605     #if ! defined YYSTYPE \           | #if ! defined BAR_STYPE \
 
 606      && ! defined YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED |  && ! defined BAR_STYPE_IS_DECLARED
 
 607     typedef union YYSTYPE             | typedef union BAR_STYPE
 
 610     } YYSTYPE;                        | } BAR_STYPE;
 
 611     # define YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED 1    | # define BAR_STYPE_IS_DECLARED 1
 
 614     extern YYSTYPE bar_lval;          | extern BAR_STYPE bar_lval;
 
 616     int bar_parse (void);               int bar_parse (void);
 
 618     #endif /* !BAR_FOO_H  */            #endif /* !BAR_FOO_H  */
 
 620 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.1 (2012-06-05) [stable]
 
 624   The next major release will drop support for generating parsers in K&R C.
 
 626 ** yacc.c: YYBACKUP works as expected.
 
 628 ** glr.c improvements:
 
 630 *** Location support is eliminated when not requested:
 
 632   GLR parsers used to include location-related code even when locations were
 
 633   not requested, and therefore not even usable.
 
 635 *** __attribute__ is preserved:
 
 637   __attribute__ is no longer disabled when __STRICT_ANSI__ is defined (i.e.,
 
 638   when -std is passed to GCC).
 
 640 ** lalr1.java: several fixes:
 
 642   The Java parser no longer throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if the
 
 643   first token leads to a syntax error.  Some minor clean ups.
 
 647 *** C++11 compatibility:
 
 649   C and C++ parsers use "nullptr" instead of "0" when __cplusplus is 201103L
 
 654   The header files such as "parser.hh", "location.hh", etc. used a constant
 
 655   name for preprocessor guards, for instance:
 
 657     #ifndef BISON_LOCATION_HH
 
 658     # define BISON_LOCATION_HH
 
 660     #endif // !BISON_LOCATION_HH
 
 662   The inclusion guard is now computed from "PREFIX/FILE-NAME", where lower
 
 663   case characters are converted to upper case, and series of
 
 664   non-alphanumerical characters are converted to an underscore.
 
 666   With "bison -o lang++/parser.cc", "location.hh" would now include:
 
 668     #ifndef YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
 
 669     # define YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
 
 671     #endif // !YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
 
 675   The position and location constructors (and their initialize methods)
 
 676   accept new arguments for line and column.  Several issues in the
 
 677   documentation were fixed.
 
 679 ** liby is no longer asking for "rpl_fprintf" on some platforms.
 
 681 ** Changes in the manual:
 
 683 *** %printer is documented
 
 685   The "%printer" directive, supported since at least Bison 1.50, is finally
 
 686   documented.  The "mfcalc" example is extended to demonstrate it.
 
 688   For consistency with the C skeletons, the C++ parsers now also support
 
 689   "yyoutput" (as an alias to "debug_stream ()").
 
 691 *** Several improvements have been made:
 
 693   The layout for grammar excerpts was changed to a more compact scheme.
 
 694   Named references are motivated.  The description of the automaton
 
 695   description file (*.output) is updated to the current format.  Incorrect
 
 696   index entries were fixed.  Some other errors were fixed.
 
 700 *** Conflicting prototypes with recent/modified Flex.
 
 702   Fixed build problems with the current, unreleased, version of Flex, and
 
 703   some modified versions of 2.5.35, which have modified function prototypes.
 
 705 *** Warnings during the build procedure have been eliminated.
 
 707 *** Several portability problems in the test suite have been fixed:
 
 709   This includes warnings with some compilers, unexpected behavior of tools
 
 710   such as diff, warning messages from the test suite itself, etc.
 
 712 *** The install-pdf target works properly:
 
 714   Running "make install-pdf" (or -dvi, -html, -info, and -ps) no longer
 
 715   halts in the middle of its course.
 
 717 * Changes in version 2.5 (2011-05-14):
 
 719 ** Grammar symbol names can now contain non-initial dashes:
 
 721   Consistently with directives (such as %error-verbose) and with
 
 722   %define variables (e.g. push-pull), grammar symbol names may contain
 
 723   dashes in any position except the beginning.  This is a GNU
 
 724   extension over POSIX Yacc.  Thus, use of this extension is reported
 
 725   by -Wyacc and rejected in Yacc mode (--yacc).
 
 729   Historically, Yacc and Bison have supported positional references
 
 730   ($n, $$) to allow access to symbol values from inside of semantic
 
 733   Starting from this version, Bison can also accept named references.
 
 734   When no ambiguity is possible, original symbol names may be used
 
 737     if_stmt : "if" cond_expr "then" then_stmt ';'
 
 738     { $if_stmt = mk_if_stmt($cond_expr, $then_stmt); }
 
 740   In the more common case, explicit names may be declared:
 
 742     stmt[res] : "if" expr[cond] "then" stmt[then] "else" stmt[else] ';'
 
 743     { $res = mk_if_stmt($cond, $then, $else); }
 
 745   Location information is also accessible using @name syntax.  When
 
 746   accessing symbol names containing dots or dashes, explicit bracketing
 
 747   ($[sym.1]) must be used.
 
 749   These features are experimental in this version.  More user feedback
 
 750   will help to stabilize them.
 
 751   Contributed by Alex Rozenman.
 
 753 ** IELR(1) and canonical LR(1):
 
 755   IELR(1) is a minimal LR(1) parser table generation algorithm.  That
 
 756   is, given any context-free grammar, IELR(1) generates parser tables
 
 757   with the full language-recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
 
 758   nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1).  This reduction
 
 759   in parser states is often an order of magnitude.  More importantly,
 
 760   because canonical LR(1)'s extra parser states may contain duplicate
 
 761   conflicts in the case of non-LR(1) grammars, the number of conflicts
 
 762   for IELR(1) is often an order of magnitude less as well.  This can
 
 763   significantly reduce the complexity of developing of a grammar.
 
 765   Bison can now generate IELR(1) and canonical LR(1) parser tables in
 
 766   place of its traditional LALR(1) parser tables, which remain the
 
 767   default.  You can specify the type of parser tables in the grammar
 
 768   file with these directives:
 
 772     %define lr.type canonical-lr
 
 774   The default-reduction optimization in the parser tables can also be
 
 775   adjusted using "%define lr.default-reductions".  For details on both
 
 776   of these features, see the new section "Tuning LR" in the Bison
 
 779   These features are experimental.  More user feedback will help to
 
 782 ** LAC (Lookahead Correction) for syntax error handling:
 
 784   Canonical LR, IELR, and LALR can suffer from a couple of problems
 
 785   upon encountering a syntax error.  First, the parser might perform
 
 786   additional parser stack reductions before discovering the syntax
 
 787   error.  Such reductions can perform user semantic actions that are
 
 788   unexpected because they are based on an invalid token, and they
 
 789   cause error recovery to begin in a different syntactic context than
 
 790   the one in which the invalid token was encountered.  Second, when
 
 791   verbose error messages are enabled (with %error-verbose or the
 
 792   obsolete "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE"), the expected token list in the
 
 793   syntax error message can both contain invalid tokens and omit valid
 
 796   The culprits for the above problems are %nonassoc, default
 
 797   reductions in inconsistent states, and parser state merging.  Thus,
 
 798   IELR and LALR suffer the most.  Canonical LR can suffer only if
 
 799   %nonassoc is used or if default reductions are enabled for
 
 802   LAC is a new mechanism within the parsing algorithm that solves
 
 803   these problems for canonical LR, IELR, and LALR without sacrificing
 
 804   %nonassoc, default reductions, or state merging.  When LAC is in
 
 805   use, canonical LR and IELR behave almost exactly the same for both
 
 806   syntactically acceptable and syntactically unacceptable input.
 
 807   While LALR still does not support the full language-recognition
 
 808   power of canonical LR and IELR, LAC at least enables LALR's syntax
 
 809   error handling to correctly reflect LALR's language-recognition
 
 812   Currently, LAC is only supported for deterministic parsers in C.
 
 813   You can enable LAC with the following directive:
 
 815     %define parse.lac full
 
 817   See the new section "LAC" in the Bison manual for additional
 
 818   details including a few caveats.
 
 820   LAC is an experimental feature.  More user feedback will help to
 
 823 ** %define improvements:
 
 825 *** Can now be invoked via the command line:
 
 827   Each of these command-line options
 
 830     --define=NAME[=VALUE]
 
 833     --force-define=NAME[=VALUE]
 
 835   is equivalent to this grammar file declaration
 
 837     %define NAME ["VALUE"]
 
 839   except that the manner in which Bison processes multiple definitions
 
 840   for the same NAME differs.  Most importantly, -F and --force-define
 
 841   quietly override %define, but -D and --define do not.  For further
 
 842   details, see the section "Bison Options" in the Bison manual.
 
 844 *** Variables renamed:
 
 846   The following %define variables
 
 849     lr.keep_unreachable_states
 
 854     lr.keep-unreachable-states
 
 856   The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely
 
 857   for backward compatibility.
 
 859 *** Values no longer need to be quoted in the grammar file:
 
 861   If a %define value is an identifier, it no longer needs to be placed
 
 862   within quotations marks.  For example,
 
 864     %define api.push-pull "push"
 
 868     %define api.push-pull push
 
 870 *** Unrecognized variables are now errors not warnings.
 
 872 *** Multiple invocations for any variable is now an error not a warning.
 
 874 ** Unrecognized %code qualifiers are now errors not warnings.
 
 876 ** Character literals not of length one:
 
 878   Previously, Bison quietly converted all character literals to length
 
 879   one.  For example, without warning, Bison interpreted the operators in
 
 880   the following grammar to be the same token:
 
 886   Bison now warns when a character literal is not of length one.  In
 
 887   some future release, Bison will start reporting an error instead.
 
 889 ** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions:
 
 891   Previously for deterministic parsers in C, if a user semantic action
 
 892   altered yychar, the parser in some cases used the old yychar value to
 
 893   determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax
 
 894   error or upon parser return.  This bug has been fixed.
 
 896 ** C++ parsers use YYRHSLOC:
 
 898   Similarly to the C parsers, the C++ parsers now define the YYRHSLOC
 
 899   macro and use it in the default YYLLOC_DEFAULT.  You are encouraged
 
 900   to use it.  If, for instance, your location structure has "first"
 
 901   and "last" members, instead of
 
 903     # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N)                             \
 
 907             (Current).first = (Rhs)[1].location.first;                   \
 
 908             (Current).last  = (Rhs)[N].location.last;                    \
 
 912             (Current).first = (Current).last = (Rhs)[0].location.last;   \
 
 918     # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N)                             \
 
 922             (Current).first = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 1).first;                   \
 
 923             (Current).last  = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, N).last;                    \
 
 927             (Current).first = (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 0).last;   \
 
 931 ** YYLLOC_DEFAULT in C++:
 
 933   The default implementation of YYLLOC_DEFAULT used to be issued in
 
 934   the header file.  It is now output in the implementation file, after
 
 935   the user %code sections so that its #ifndef guard does not try to
 
 936   override the user's YYLLOC_DEFAULT if provided.
 
 938 ** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it:
 
 940   YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
 
 941   deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison.  More recently, it was
 
 942   a documented feature of Bison's experimental Java parsers.  As
 
 943   promised in Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, any appearance of YYFAIL in a
 
 944   semantic action now produces a deprecation warning, and Java parsers
 
 945   no longer implement YYFAIL at all.  For further details, including a
 
 946   discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL
 
 947   being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry.
 
 949 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action:
 
 951   Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for
 
 952   reductions when the output language defaulted to C (specifically, when
 
 953   neither %yacc, %language, %skeleton, or equivalent command-line
 
 954   options were specified).  This allowed actions such as
 
 956     exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
 
 960     exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
 
 962   As a first step in removing this misfeature, Bison now issues a
 
 963   warning when it appends a semicolon.  Moreover, in cases where Bison
 
 964   cannot easily determine whether a semicolon is needed (for example, an
 
 965   action ending with a cpp directive or a braced compound initializer),
 
 966   it no longer appends one.  Thus, the C compiler might now complain
 
 967   about a missing semicolon where it did not before.  Future releases of
 
 968   Bison will cease to append semicolons entirely.
 
 970 ** Verbose syntax error message fixes:
 
 972   When %error-verbose or the obsolete "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE" is
 
 973   specified, syntax error messages produced by the generated parser
 
 974   include the unexpected token as well as a list of expected tokens.
 
 975   The effect of %nonassoc on these verbose messages has been corrected
 
 976   in two ways, but a more complete fix requires LAC, described above:
 
 978 *** When %nonassoc is used, there can exist parser states that accept no
 
 979     tokens, and so the parser does not always require a lookahead token
 
 980     in order to detect a syntax error.  Because no unexpected token or
 
 981     expected tokens can then be reported, the verbose syntax error
 
 982     message described above is suppressed, and the parser instead
 
 983     reports the simpler message, "syntax error".  Previously, this
 
 984     suppression was sometimes erroneously triggered by %nonassoc when a
 
 985     lookahead was actually required.  Now verbose messages are
 
 986     suppressed only when all previous lookaheads have already been
 
 987     shifted or discarded.
 
 989 *** Previously, the list of expected tokens erroneously included tokens
 
 990     that would actually induce a syntax error because conflicts for them
 
 991     were resolved with %nonassoc in the current parser state.  Such
 
 992     tokens are now properly omitted from the list.
 
 994 *** Expected token lists are still often wrong due to state merging
 
 995     (from LALR or IELR) and default reductions, which can both add
 
 996     invalid tokens and subtract valid tokens.  Canonical LR almost
 
 997     completely fixes this problem by eliminating state merging and
 
 998     default reductions.  However, there is one minor problem left even
 
 999     when using canonical LR and even after the fixes above.  That is,
 
1000     if the resolution of a conflict with %nonassoc appears in a later
 
1001     parser state than the one at which some syntax error is
 
1002     discovered, the conflicted token is still erroneously included in
 
1003     the expected token list.  Bison's new LAC implementation,
 
1004     described above, eliminates this problem and the need for
 
1005     canonical LR.  However, LAC is still experimental and is disabled
 
1008 ** Java skeleton fixes:
 
1010 *** A location handling bug has been fixed.
 
1012 *** The top element of each of the value stack and location stack is now
 
1013     cleared when popped so that it can be garbage collected.
 
1015 *** Parser traces now print the top element of the stack.
 
1017 ** -W/--warnings fixes:
 
1019 *** Bison now properly recognizes the "no-" versions of categories:
 
1021   For example, given the following command line, Bison now enables all
 
1022   warnings except warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
 
1024     bison -Wall,no-yacc gram.y
 
1026 *** Bison now treats S/R and R/R conflicts like other warnings:
 
1028   Previously, conflict reports were independent of Bison's normal
 
1029   warning system.  Now, Bison recognizes the warning categories
 
1030   "conflicts-sr" and "conflicts-rr".  This change has important
 
1031   consequences for the -W and --warnings command-line options.  For
 
1034     bison -Wno-conflicts-sr gram.y  # S/R conflicts not reported
 
1035     bison -Wno-conflicts-rr gram.y  # R/R conflicts not reported
 
1036     bison -Wnone            gram.y  # no conflicts are reported
 
1037     bison -Werror           gram.y  # any conflict is an error
 
1039   However, as before, if the %expect or %expect-rr directive is
 
1040   specified, an unexpected number of conflicts is an error, and an
 
1041   expected number of conflicts is not reported, so -W and --warning
 
1042   then have no effect on the conflict report.
 
1044 *** The "none" category no longer disables a preceding "error":
 
1046   For example, for the following command line, Bison now reports
 
1047   errors instead of warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
 
1049     bison -Werror,none,yacc gram.y
 
1051 *** The "none" category now disables all Bison warnings:
 
1053   Previously, the "none" category disabled only Bison warnings for
 
1054   which there existed a specific -W/--warning category.  However,
 
1055   given the following command line, Bison is now guaranteed to
 
1056   suppress all warnings:
 
1060 ** Precedence directives can now assign token number 0:
 
1062   Since Bison 2.3b, which restored the ability of precedence
 
1063   directives to assign token numbers, doing so for token number 0 has
 
1064   produced an assertion failure.  For example:
 
1068   This bug has been fixed.
 
1070 * Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
 
1072 ** Bison now obeys -Werror and --warnings=error for warnings about
 
1073    grammar rules that are useless in the parser due to conflicts.
 
1075 ** Problems with spawning M4 on at least FreeBSD 8 and FreeBSD 9 have
 
1078 ** Failures in the test suite for GCC 4.5 have been fixed.
 
1080 ** Failures in the test suite for some versions of Sun Studio C++ have
 
1083 ** Contrary to Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, it has been decided that
 
1084    warnings about undefined %prec identifiers will not be converted to
 
1085    errors in Bison 2.5.  They will remain warnings, which should be
 
1086    sufficient for POSIX while avoiding backward compatibility issues.
 
1088 ** Minor documentation fixes.
 
1090 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (2010-03-20):
 
1092 ** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks
 
1093    in the test suite on some versions of at least Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
 
1094    RHEL4, and Tru64 have been addressed.  As a result, fatal Bison
 
1095    errors should no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
 
1098 ** "%prec IDENTIFIER" requires IDENTIFIER to be defined separately.
 
1100   POSIX specifies that an error be reported for any identifier that does
 
1101   not appear on the LHS of a grammar rule and that is not defined by
 
1102   %token, %left, %right, or %nonassoc.  Bison 2.3b and later lost this
 
1103   error report for the case when an identifier appears only after a
 
1104   %prec directive.  It is now restored.  However, for backward
 
1105   compatibility with recent Bison releases, it is only a warning for
 
1106   now.  In Bison 2.5 and later, it will return to being an error.
 
1107   [Between the 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 releases, it was decided that this
 
1108   warning will not be converted to an error in Bison 2.5.]
 
1110 ** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.
 
1112 ** Warnings from gcc's -Wundef option about undefined YYENABLE_NLS,
 
1113    YYLTYPE_IS_TRIVIAL, and __STRICT_ANSI__ in C/C++ parsers are now
 
1116 ** %code is now a permanent feature.
 
1118   A traditional Yacc prologue directive is written in the form:
 
1122   To provide a more flexible alternative, Bison 2.3b introduced the
 
1123   %code directive with the following forms for C/C++:
 
1126     %code requires {CODE}
 
1127     %code provides {CODE}
 
1130   These forms are now considered permanent features of Bison.  See the
 
1131   %code entries in the section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
 
1132   manual for a summary of their functionality.  See the section
 
1133   "Prologue Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the
 
1134   advantages of %code over the traditional Yacc prologue directive.
 
1136   Bison's Java feature as a whole including its current usage of %code
 
1137   is still considered experimental.
 
1139 ** YYFAIL is deprecated and will eventually be removed.
 
1141   YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
 
1142   deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison.  Previously, it was
 
1143   documented for Bison's experimental Java parsers.  YYFAIL is no longer
 
1144   documented for Java parsers and is formally deprecated in both cases.
 
1145   Users are strongly encouraged to migrate to YYERROR, which is
 
1148   Like YYERROR, you can invoke YYFAIL from a semantic action in order to
 
1149   induce a syntax error.  The most obvious difference from YYERROR is
 
1150   that YYFAIL will automatically invoke yyerror to report the syntax
 
1151   error so that you don't have to.  However, there are several other
 
1152   subtle differences between YYERROR and YYFAIL, and YYFAIL suffers from
 
1153   inherent flaws when %error-verbose or "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE" is
 
1154   used.  For a more detailed discussion, see:
 
1156     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-12/msg00024.html
 
1158   The upcoming Bison 2.5 will remove YYFAIL from Java parsers, but
 
1159   deterministic parsers in C will continue to implement it.  However,
 
1160   because YYFAIL is already flawed, it seems futile to try to make new
 
1161   Bison features compatible with it.  Thus, during parser generation,
 
1162   Bison 2.5 will produce a warning whenever it discovers YYFAIL in a
 
1163   rule action.  In a later release, YYFAIL will be disabled for
 
1164   %error-verbose and "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE".  Eventually, YYFAIL will
 
1165   be removed altogether.
 
1167   There exists at least one case where Bison 2.5's YYFAIL warning will
 
1168   be a false positive.  Some projects add phony uses of YYFAIL and other
 
1169   Bison-defined macros for the sole purpose of suppressing C
 
1170   preprocessor warnings (from GCC cpp's -Wunused-macros, for example).
 
1171   To avoid Bison's future warning, such YYFAIL uses can be moved to the
 
1172   epilogue (that is, after the second "%%") in the Bison input file.  In
 
1173   this release (2.4.2), Bison already generates its own code to suppress
 
1174   C preprocessor warnings for YYFAIL, so projects can remove their own
 
1175   phony uses of YYFAIL if compatibility with Bison releases prior to
 
1176   2.4.2 is not necessary.
 
1178 ** Internationalization.
 
1180   Fix a regression introduced in Bison 2.4: Under some circumstances,
 
1181   message translations were not installed although supported by the
 
1184 * Changes in version 2.4.1 (2008-12-11):
 
1186 ** In the GLR defines file, unexpanded M4 macros in the yylval and yylloc
 
1187    declarations have been fixed.
 
1189 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
 
1191   Bison used to prepend a trailing semicolon at the end of the user
 
1192   action for reductions.  This allowed actions such as
 
1194     exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
 
1198     exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
 
1200   Some grammars still depend on this "feature".  Bison 2.4.1 restores
 
1201   the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when
 
1202   neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options
 
1203   are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old
 
1204   behavior to be adjusted.  Future releases of Bison will disable this
 
1207 ** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.
 
1209 * Changes in version 2.4 (2008-11-02):
 
1211 ** %language is an experimental feature.
 
1213   We first introduced this feature in test release 2.3b as a cleaner
 
1214   alternative to %skeleton.  Since then, we have discussed the possibility of
 
1215   modifying its effect on Bison's output file names.  Thus, in this release,
 
1216   we consider %language to be an experimental feature that will likely evolve
 
1219 ** Forward compatibility with GNU M4 has been improved.
 
1221 ** Several bugs in the C++ skeleton and the experimental Java skeleton have been
 
1224 * Changes in version 2.3b (2008-05-27):
 
1226 ** The quotes around NAME that used to be required in the following directive
 
1229     %define NAME "VALUE"
 
1231 ** The directive "%pure-parser" is now deprecated in favor of:
 
1235   which has the same effect except that Bison is more careful to warn about
 
1236   unreasonable usage in the latter case.
 
1240   Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in C with a push interface.  That
 
1241   is, instead of invoking "yyparse", which pulls tokens from "yylex", you can
 
1242   push one token at a time to the parser using "yypush_parse", which will
 
1243   return to the caller after processing each token.  By default, the push
 
1244   interface is disabled.  Either of the following directives will enable it:
 
1246     %define api.push_pull "push" // Just push; does not require yylex.
 
1247     %define api.push_pull "both" // Push and pull; requires yylex.
 
1249   See the new section "A Push Parser" in the Bison manual for details.
 
1251   The current push parsing interface is experimental and may evolve.  More user
 
1252   feedback will help to stabilize it.
 
1254 ** The -g and --graph options now output graphs in Graphviz DOT format,
 
1255   not VCG format.  Like --graph, -g now also takes an optional FILE argument
 
1256   and thus cannot be bundled with other short options.
 
1260   Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in Java.  The skeleton is
 
1261   "data/lalr1.java".  Consider using the new %language directive instead of
 
1262   %skeleton to select it.
 
1264   See the new section "Java Parsers" in the Bison manual for details.
 
1266   The current Java interface is experimental and may evolve.  More user
 
1267   feedback will help to stabilize it.
 
1268   Contributed by Paolo Bonzini.
 
1272   This new directive specifies the programming language of the generated
 
1273   parser, which can be C (the default), C++, or Java.  Besides the skeleton
 
1274   that Bison uses, the directive affects the names of the generated files if
 
1275   the grammar file's name ends in ".y".
 
1277 ** XML Automaton Report
 
1279   Bison can now generate an XML report of the LALR(1) automaton using the new
 
1280   "--xml" option.  The current XML schema is experimental and may evolve.  More
 
1281   user feedback will help to stabilize it.
 
1282   Contributed by Wojciech Polak.
 
1284 ** The grammar file may now specify the name of the parser header file using
 
1285   %defines.  For example:
 
1289 ** When reporting useless rules, useless nonterminals, and unused terminals,
 
1290   Bison now employs the terms "useless in grammar" instead of "useless",
 
1291   "useless in parser" instead of "never reduced", and "unused in grammar"
 
1292   instead of "unused".
 
1294 ** Unreachable State Removal
 
1296   Previously, Bison sometimes generated parser tables containing unreachable
 
1297   states.  A state can become unreachable during conflict resolution if Bison
 
1298   disables a shift action leading to it from a predecessor state.  Bison now:
 
1300     1. Removes unreachable states.
 
1302     2. Does not report any conflicts that appeared in unreachable states.
 
1303        WARNING: As a result, you may need to update %expect and %expect-rr
 
1304        directives in existing grammar files.
 
1306     3. For any rule used only in such states, Bison now reports the rule as
 
1307        "useless in parser due to conflicts".
 
1309   This feature can be disabled with the following directive:
 
1311     %define lr.keep_unreachable_states
 
1313   See the %define entry in the "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison manual
 
1314   for further discussion.
 
1316 ** Lookahead Set Correction in the ".output" Report
 
1318   When instructed to generate a ".output" file including lookahead sets
 
1319   (using "--report=lookahead", for example), Bison now prints each reduction's
 
1320   lookahead set only next to the associated state's one item that (1) is
 
1321   associated with the same rule as the reduction and (2) has its dot at the end
 
1322   of its RHS.  Previously, Bison also erroneously printed the lookahead set
 
1323   next to all of the state's other items associated with the same rule.  This
 
1324   bug affected only the ".output" file and not the generated parser source
 
1327 ** --report-file=FILE is a new option to override the default ".output" file
 
1330 ** The "=" that used to be required in the following directives is now
 
1333     %file-prefix "parser"
 
1337 ** An Alternative to "%{...%}" -- "%code QUALIFIER {CODE}"
 
1339   Bison 2.3a provided a new set of directives as a more flexible alternative to
 
1340   the traditional Yacc prologue blocks.  Those have now been consolidated into
 
1341   a single %code directive with an optional qualifier field, which identifies
 
1342   the purpose of the code and thus the location(s) where Bison should generate
 
1345     1. "%code          {CODE}" replaces "%after-header  {CODE}"
 
1346     2. "%code requires {CODE}" replaces "%start-header  {CODE}"
 
1347     3. "%code provides {CODE}" replaces "%end-header    {CODE}"
 
1348     4. "%code top      {CODE}" replaces "%before-header {CODE}"
 
1350   See the %code entries in section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
 
1351   manual for a summary of the new functionality.  See the new section "Prologue
 
1352   Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the advantages of %code
 
1353   over the traditional Yacc prologues.
 
1355   The prologue alternatives are experimental.  More user feedback will help to
 
1356   determine whether they should become permanent features.
 
1358 ** Revised warning: unset or unused mid-rule values
 
1360   Since Bison 2.2, Bison has warned about mid-rule values that are set but not
 
1361   used within any of the actions of the parent rule.  For example, Bison warns
 
1364     exp: '1' { $$ = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $1 + $4; };
 
1366   Now, Bison also warns about mid-rule values that are used but not set.  For
 
1367   example, Bison warns about unset $$ in the mid-rule action in:
 
1369     exp: '1' { $1 = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $2 + $4; };
 
1371   However, Bison now disables both of these warnings by default since they
 
1372   sometimes prove to be false alarms in existing grammars employing the Yacc
 
1373   constructs $0 or $-N (where N is some positive integer).
 
1375   To enable these warnings, specify the option "--warnings=midrule-values" or
 
1376   "-W", which is a synonym for "--warnings=all".
 
1378 ** Default %destructor or %printer with "<*>" or "<>"
 
1380   Bison now recognizes two separate kinds of default %destructor's and
 
1383     1. Place "<*>" in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
 
1384        %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols for which you have formally
 
1385        declared semantic type tags.
 
1387     2. Place "<>" in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
 
1388        %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols without declared semantic
 
1391   Bison no longer supports the "%symbol-default" notation from Bison 2.3a.
 
1392   "<*>" and "<>" combined achieve the same effect with one exception: Bison no
 
1393   longer applies any %destructor to a mid-rule value if that mid-rule value is
 
1394   not actually ever referenced using either $$ or $n in a semantic action.
 
1396   The default %destructor's and %printer's are experimental.  More user
 
1397   feedback will help to determine whether they should become permanent
 
1400   See the section "Freeing Discarded Symbols" in the Bison manual for further
 
1403 ** %left, %right, and %nonassoc can now declare token numbers.  This is required
 
1404   by POSIX.  However, see the end of section "Operator Precedence" in the Bison
 
1405   manual for a caveat concerning the treatment of literal strings.
 
1407 ** The nonfunctional --no-parser, -n, and %no-parser options have been
 
1408   completely removed from Bison.
 
1410 * Changes in version 2.3a, 2006-09-13:
 
1412 ** Instead of %union, you can define and use your own union type
 
1413   YYSTYPE if your grammar contains at least one <type> tag.
 
1414   Your YYSTYPE need not be a macro; it can be a typedef.
 
1415   This change is for compatibility with other Yacc implementations,
 
1416   and is required by POSIX.
 
1418 ** Locations columns and lines start at 1.
 
1419   In accordance with the GNU Coding Standards and Emacs.
 
1421 ** You may now declare per-type and default %destructor's and %printer's:
 
1425     %union { char *string; }
 
1426     %token <string> STRING1
 
1427     %token <string> STRING2
 
1428     %type  <string> string1
 
1429     %type  <string> string2
 
1430     %union { char character; }
 
1431     %token <character> CHR
 
1432     %type  <character> chr
 
1433     %destructor { free ($$); } %symbol-default
 
1434     %destructor { free ($$); printf ("%d", @$.first_line); } STRING1 string1
 
1435     %destructor { } <character>
 
1437   guarantees that, when the parser discards any user-defined symbol that has a
 
1438   semantic type tag other than "<character>", it passes its semantic value to
 
1439   "free".  However, when the parser discards a "STRING1" or a "string1", it
 
1440   also prints its line number to "stdout".  It performs only the second
 
1441   "%destructor" in this case, so it invokes "free" only once.
 
1443   [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the default
 
1444   %destructor's and %printer's were experimental, and they were rewritten in
 
1447 ** Except for LALR(1) parsers in C with POSIX Yacc emulation enabled (with "-y",
 
1448   "--yacc", or "%yacc"), Bison no longer generates #define statements for
 
1449   associating token numbers with token names.  Removing the #define statements
 
1450   helps to sanitize the global namespace during preprocessing, but POSIX Yacc
 
1451   requires them.  Bison still generates an enum for token names in all cases.
 
1453 ** Handling of traditional Yacc prologue blocks is now more consistent but
 
1454   potentially incompatible with previous releases of Bison.
 
1456   As before, you declare prologue blocks in your grammar file with the
 
1457   "%{ ... %}" syntax.  To generate the pre-prologue, Bison concatenates all
 
1458   prologue blocks that you've declared before the first %union.  To generate
 
1459   the post-prologue, Bison concatenates all prologue blocks that you've
 
1460   declared after the first %union.
 
1462   Previous releases of Bison inserted the pre-prologue into both the header
 
1463   file and the code file in all cases except for LALR(1) parsers in C.  In the
 
1464   latter case, Bison inserted it only into the code file.  For parsers in C++,
 
1465   the point of insertion was before any token definitions (which associate
 
1466   token numbers with names).  For parsers in C, the point of insertion was
 
1467   after the token definitions.
 
1469   Now, Bison never inserts the pre-prologue into the header file.  In the code
 
1470   file, it always inserts it before the token definitions.
 
1472 ** Bison now provides a more flexible alternative to the traditional Yacc
 
1473   prologue blocks: %before-header, %start-header, %end-header, and
 
1476   For example, the following declaration order in the grammar file reflects the
 
1477   order in which Bison will output these code blocks.  However, you are free to
 
1478   declare these code blocks in your grammar file in whatever order is most
 
1482       /* Bison treats this block like a pre-prologue block: it inserts it into
 
1483        * the code file before the contents of the header file.  It does *not*
 
1484        * insert it into the header file.  This is a good place to put
 
1485        * #include's that you want at the top of your code file.  A common
 
1486        * example is '#include "system.h"'.  */
 
1489       /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
 
1490        * In both files, the point of insertion is before any Bison-generated
 
1491        * token, semantic type, location type, and class definitions.  This is a
 
1492        * good place to define %union dependencies, for example.  */
 
1495       /* Unlike the traditional Yacc prologue blocks, the output order for the
 
1496        * new %*-header blocks is not affected by their declaration position
 
1497        * relative to any %union in the grammar file.  */
 
1500       /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
 
1501        * In both files, the point of insertion is after the Bison-generated
 
1502        * definitions.  This is a good place to declare or define public
 
1503        * functions or data structures that depend on the Bison-generated
 
1507       /* Bison treats this block like a post-prologue block: it inserts it into
 
1508        * the code file after the contents of the header file.  It does *not*
 
1509        * insert it into the header file.  This is a good place to declare or
 
1510        * define internal functions or data structures that depend on the
 
1511        * Bison-generated definitions.  */
 
1514   If you have multiple occurrences of any one of the above declarations, Bison
 
1515   will concatenate the contents in declaration order.
 
1517   [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the prologue
 
1518   alternatives were experimental, and they were rewritten in future versions.]
 
1520 ** The option "--report=look-ahead" has been changed to "--report=lookahead".
 
1521   The old spelling still works, but is not documented and may be removed
 
1522   in a future release.
 
1524 * Changes in version 2.3, 2006-06-05:
 
1526 ** GLR grammars should now use "YYRECOVERING ()" instead of "YYRECOVERING",
 
1527   for compatibility with LALR(1) grammars.
 
1529 ** It is now documented that any definition of YYSTYPE or YYLTYPE should
 
1530   be to a type name that does not contain parentheses or brackets.
 
1532 * Changes in version 2.2, 2006-05-19:
 
1534 ** The distribution terms for all Bison-generated parsers now permit
 
1535   using the parsers in nonfree programs.  Previously, this permission
 
1536   was granted only for Bison-generated LALR(1) parsers in C.
 
1538 ** %name-prefix changes the namespace name in C++ outputs.
 
1540 ** The C++ parsers export their token_type.
 
1542 ** Bison now allows multiple %union declarations, and concatenates
 
1543   their contents together.
 
1545 ** New warning: unused values
 
1546   Right-hand side symbols whose values are not used are reported,
 
1547   if the symbols have destructors.  For instance:
 
1549      exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; }
 
1553   will trigger a warning about $$ and $5 in the first rule, and $3 in
 
1554   the second ($1 is copied to $$ by the default rule).  This example
 
1555   most likely contains three errors, and could be rewritten as:
 
1557      exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp
 
1558             { $$ = $1 ? $3 : $5; free ($1 ? $5 : $3); free ($1); }
 
1560             { $$ = $1 ? $1 : $3; if ($1) free ($3); }
 
1563   However, if the original actions were really intended, memory leaks
 
1564   and all, the warnings can be suppressed by letting Bison believe the
 
1565   values are used, e.g.:
 
1567      exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; (void) ($$, $5); }
 
1568         | exp "+" exp         { $$ = $1; (void) $3; }
 
1571   If there are mid-rule actions, the warning is issued if no action
 
1572   uses it.  The following triggers no warning: $1 and $3 are used.
 
1574      exp: exp { push ($1); } '+' exp { push ($3); sum (); };
 
1576   The warning is intended to help catching lost values and memory leaks.
 
1577   If a value is ignored, its associated memory typically is not reclaimed.
 
1579 ** %destructor vs. YYABORT, YYACCEPT, and YYERROR.
 
1580   Destructors are now called when user code invokes YYABORT, YYACCEPT,
 
1581   and YYERROR, for all objects on the stack, other than objects
 
1582   corresponding to the right-hand side of the current rule.
 
1584 ** %expect, %expect-rr
 
1585   Incorrect numbers of expected conflicts are now actual errors,
 
1586   instead of warnings.
 
1588 ** GLR, YACC parsers.
 
1589   The %parse-params are available in the destructors (and the
 
1590   experimental printers) as per the documentation.
 
1592 ** Bison now warns if it finds a stray "$" or "@" in an action.
 
1594 ** %require "VERSION"
 
1595   This specifies that the grammar file depends on features implemented
 
1596   in Bison version VERSION or higher.
 
1598 ** lalr1.cc: The token and value types are now class members.
 
1599   The tokens were defined as free form enums and cpp macros.  YYSTYPE
 
1600   was defined as a free form union.  They are now class members:
 
1601   tokens are enumerations of the "yy::parser::token" struct, and the
 
1602   semantic values have the "yy::parser::semantic_type" type.
 
1604   If you do not want or can update to this scheme, the directive
 
1605   '%define "global_tokens_and_yystype" "1"' triggers the global
 
1606   definition of tokens and YYSTYPE.  This change is suitable both
 
1607   for previous releases of Bison, and this one.
 
1609   If you wish to update, then make sure older version of Bison will
 
1610   fail using '%require "2.2"'.
 
1612 ** DJGPP support added.
 
1614 * Changes in version 2.1, 2005-09-16:
 
1616 ** The C++ lalr1.cc skeleton supports %lex-param.
 
1618 ** Bison-generated parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like
 
1619   "syntax error" into languages other than English.  The default
 
1620   language is still English.  For details, please see the new
 
1621   Internationalization section of the Bison manual.  Software
 
1622   distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file.  Thanks to
 
1623   Bruno Haible for this new feature.
 
1625 ** Wording in the Bison-generated parsers has been changed slightly to
 
1626   simplify translation.  In particular, the message "memory exhausted"
 
1627   has replaced "parser stack overflow", as the old message was not
 
1628   always accurate for modern Bison-generated parsers.
 
1630 ** Destructors are now called when the parser aborts, for all symbols left
 
1631   behind on the stack.  Also, the start symbol is now destroyed after a
 
1632   successful parse.  In both cases, the behavior was formerly inconsistent.
 
1634 ** When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated parsers no longer
 
1635   quote the literal strings associated with tokens.  For example, for
 
1636   a syntax error associated with '%token NUM "number"' they might
 
1637   print 'syntax error, unexpected number' instead of 'syntax error,
 
1638   unexpected "number"'.
 
1640 * Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25:
 
1642 ** Possibly-incompatible changes
 
1644   - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
 
1645     (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
 
1646     problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection.  You can "#define
 
1647     YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read
 
1648     the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.
 
1650   - Error token location.
 
1651     During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
 
1652     to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
 
1653     the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
 
1654     recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
 
1656   - Semicolon changes:
 
1657     . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
 
1658     . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
 
1660   - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
 
1661     string literals.  They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
 
1662     dropped support for them.  Better diagnostics are now generated if
 
1663     forget a closing quote.
 
1665   - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
 
1669   - GLR grammars now support locations.
 
1671   - New directive: %initial-action.
 
1672     This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
 
1673     initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
 
1675   - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
 
1676     reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.
 
1678   - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., "%token FOO 0x12d".
 
1679     This is a GNU extension.
 
1681   - The option "--report=lookahead" was changed to "--report=look-ahead".
 
1682     [However, this was changed back after 2.3.]
 
1684   - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
 
1686   - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
 
1687     yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
 
1691   - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
 
1692     This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
 
1693     reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
 
1694     are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts).  However, in future
 
1695     versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
 
1696     these violations will become errors again.
 
1698   - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer
 
1699     arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
 
1701   - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
 
1703 * Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01:
 
1705 ** The documentation license has been upgraded to version 1.2
 
1706   of the GNU Free Documentation License.
 
1708 ** syntax error processing
 
1710   - In Yacc-style parsers YYLLOC_DEFAULT is now used to compute error
 
1711     locations too.  This fixes bugs in error-location computation.
 
1714     It is now possible to reclaim the memory associated to symbols
 
1715     discarded during error recovery.  This feature is still experimental.
 
1718     This new directive is preferred over YYERROR_VERBOSE.
 
1720   - #defining yyerror to steal internal variables is discouraged.
 
1721     It is not guaranteed to work forever.
 
1723 ** POSIX conformance
 
1725   - Semicolons are once again optional at the end of grammar rules.
 
1726     This reverts to the behavior of Bison 1.33 and earlier, and improves
 
1727     compatibility with Yacc.
 
1729   - "parse error" -> "syntax error"
 
1730     Bison now uniformly uses the term "syntax error"; formerly, the code
 
1731     and manual sometimes used the term "parse error" instead.  POSIX
 
1732     requires "syntax error" in diagnostics, and it was thought better to
 
1735   - The documentation now emphasizes that yylex and yyerror must be
 
1736     declared before use.  C99 requires this.
 
1738   - Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like UCNs and
 
1739     backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires.
 
1741   - File names are properly escaped in C output.  E.g., foo\bar.y is
 
1742     output as "foo\\bar.y".
 
1744   - Yacc command and library now available
 
1745     The Bison distribution now installs a "yacc" command, as POSIX requires.
 
1746     Also, Bison now installs a small library liby.a containing
 
1747     implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions.
 
1748     This library is normally not useful, but POSIX requires it.
 
1750   - Type clashes now generate warnings, not errors.
 
1752   - If the user does not define YYSTYPE as a macro, Bison now declares it
 
1753     using typedef instead of defining it as a macro.
 
1754     For consistency, YYLTYPE is also declared instead of defined.
 
1756 ** Other compatibility issues
 
1758   - %union directives can now have a tag before the "{", e.g., the
 
1759     directive "%union foo {...}" now generates the C code
 
1760     "typedef union foo { ... } YYSTYPE;"; this is for Yacc compatibility.
 
1761     The default union tag is "YYSTYPE", for compatibility with Solaris 9 Yacc.
 
1762     For consistency, YYLTYPE's struct tag is now "YYLTYPE" not "yyltype".
 
1763     This is for compatibility with both Yacc and Bison 1.35.
 
1765   - ";" is output before the terminating "}" of an action, for
 
1766     compatibility with Bison 1.35.
 
1768   - Bison now uses a Yacc-style format for conflict reports, e.g.,
 
1769     "conflicts: 2 shift/reduce, 1 reduce/reduce".
 
1771   - "yystype" and "yyltype" are now obsolescent macros instead of being
 
1772     typedefs or tags; they are no longer documented and are planned to be
 
1773     withdrawn in a future release.
 
1778     Users of Bison have to decide how they handle the portability of the
 
1781   - "parsing stack overflow..." -> "parser stack overflow"
 
1782     GLR parsers now report "parser stack overflow" as per the Bison manual.
 
1784 ** %parse-param and %lex-param
 
1785   The macros YYPARSE_PARAM and YYLEX_PARAM provide a means to pass
 
1786   additional context to yyparse and yylex.  They suffer from several
 
1789   - a single argument only can be added,
 
1790   - their types are weak (void *),
 
1791   - this context is not passed to ancillary functions such as yyerror,
 
1792   - only yacc.c parsers support them.
 
1794   The new %parse-param/%lex-param directives provide a more precise control.
 
1797     %parse-param {int *nastiness}
 
1798     %lex-param   {int *nastiness}
 
1799     %parse-param {int *randomness}
 
1801   results in the following signatures:
 
1803     int yylex   (int *nastiness);
 
1804     int yyparse (int *nastiness, int *randomness);
 
1806   or, if both %pure-parser and %locations are used:
 
1808     int yylex   (YYSTYPE *lvalp, YYLTYPE *llocp, int *nastiness);
 
1809     int yyparse (int *nastiness, int *randomness);
 
1811 ** Bison now warns if it detects conflicting outputs to the same file,
 
1812   e.g., it generates a warning for "bison -d -o foo.h foo.y" since
 
1813   that command outputs both code and header to foo.h.
 
1815 ** #line in output files
 
1816   - --no-line works properly.
 
1818 ** Bison can no longer be built by a K&R C compiler; it requires C89 or
 
1819   later to be built.  This change originally took place a few versions
 
1820   ago, but nobody noticed until we recently asked someone to try
 
1821   building Bison with a K&R C compiler.
 
1823 * Changes in version 1.75, 2002-10-14:
 
1825 ** Bison should now work on 64-bit hosts.
 
1827 ** Indonesian translation thanks to Tedi Heriyanto.
 
1830   Fix spurious parse errors.
 
1833   Some people redefine yyerror to steal yyparse' private variables.
 
1834   Reenable this trick until an official feature replaces it.
 
1837   In agreement with POSIX and with other Yaccs, leaving a default
 
1838   action is valid when $$ is untyped, and $1 typed:
 
1842   but the converse remains an error:
 
1846 ** Values of mid-rule actions
 
1849         foo: { ... } { $$ = $1; } ...
 
1851   was incorrectly rejected: $1 is defined in the second mid-rule
 
1852   action, and is equal to the $$ of the first mid-rule action.
 
1854 * Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04:
 
1859   causes Bison to produce a Generalized LR (GLR) parser, capable of handling
 
1860   almost any context-free grammar, ambiguous or not.  The new declarations
 
1861   %dprec and %merge on grammar rules allow parse-time resolution of
 
1862   ambiguities.  Contributed by Paul Hilfinger.
 
1864   Unfortunately Bison 1.50 does not work properly on 64-bit hosts
 
1865   like the Alpha, so please stick to 32-bit hosts for now.
 
1868   When not in Yacc compatibility mode, when the output file was not
 
1869   specified, running "bison foo/bar.y" created "foo/bar.c".  It
 
1870   now creates "bar.c".
 
1873   The undefined token was systematically mapped to 2 which prevented
 
1874   the use of 2 by the user.  This is no longer the case.
 
1876 ** Unknown token numbers
 
1877   If yylex returned an out of range value, yyparse could die.  This is
 
1881   According to POSIX, the error token must be 256.
 
1882   Bison extends this requirement by making it a preference: *if* the
 
1883   user specified that one of her tokens is numbered 256, then error
 
1884   will be mapped onto another number.
 
1886 ** Verbose error messages
 
1887   They no longer report "..., expecting error or..." for states where
 
1888   error recovery is possible.
 
1891   Defaults to "$end" instead of "$".
 
1893 ** Error recovery now conforms to documentation and to POSIX
 
1894   When a Bison-generated parser encounters a syntax error, it now pops
 
1895   the stack until it finds a state that allows shifting the error
 
1896   token.  Formerly, it popped the stack until it found a state that
 
1897   allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the
 
1898   error token.  The new behavior has long been the documented behavior,
 
1899   and has long been required by POSIX.  For more details, please see
 
1900   Paul Eggert, "Reductions during Bison error handling" (2002-05-20)
 
1901   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2002-05/msg00038.html>.
 
1904   Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.
 
1907   Larger grammars are now supported (larger token numbers, larger grammar
 
1908   size (= sum of the LHS and RHS lengths), larger LALR tables).
 
1909   Formerly, many of these numbers ran afoul of 16-bit limits;
 
1910   now these limits are 32 bits on most hosts.
 
1912 ** Explicit initial rule
 
1913   Bison used to play hacks with the initial rule, which the user does
 
1914   not write.  It is now explicit, and visible in the reports and
 
1918   Before, Bison reported the useless rules, but, although not used,
 
1919   included them in the parsers.  They are now actually removed.
 
1921 ** Useless rules, useless nonterminals
 
1922   They are now reported, as a warning, with their locations.
 
1924 ** Rules never reduced
 
1925   Rules that can never be reduced because of conflicts are now
 
1928 ** Incorrect "Token not used"
 
1929   On a grammar such as
 
1931     %token useless useful
 
1933     exp: '0' %prec useful;
 
1935   where a token was used to set the precedence of the last rule,
 
1936   bison reported both "useful" and "useless" as useless tokens.
 
1938 ** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31
 
1939   as they caused too many portability hassles.
 
1941 ** Default locations
 
1942   By an accident of design, the default computation of @$ was
 
1943   performed after another default computation was performed: @$ = @1.
 
1944   The latter is now removed: YYLLOC_DEFAULT is fully responsible of
 
1945   the computation of @$.
 
1947 ** Token end-of-file
 
1948   The token end of file may be specified by the user, in which case,
 
1949   the user symbol is used in the reports, the graphs, and the verbose
 
1950   error messages instead of "$end", which remains being the default.
 
1954     %token MYEOF 0 "end of file"
 
1957   This old option, which has been broken for ages, is removed.
 
1960   Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Alexandre Folle de Menezes.
 
1961   Croatian, thanks to Denis Lackovic.
 
1963 ** Incorrect token definitions
 
1966   bison used to output
 
1969 ** Token definitions as enums
 
1970   Tokens are output both as the traditional #define's, and, provided
 
1971   the compiler supports ANSI C or is a C++ compiler, as enums.
 
1972   This lets debuggers display names instead of integers.
 
1975   In addition to --verbose, bison supports --report=THINGS, which
 
1976   produces additional information:
 
1978     complete the core item sets with their closure
 
1979   - lookahead [changed to "look-ahead" in 1.875e through 2.3, but changed back]
 
1980     explicitly associate lookahead tokens to items
 
1982     describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
 
1983     Bison used to systematically output this information on top of
 
1984     the report.  Solved conflicts are now attached to their states.
 
1987   Previous versions don't complain when there is a type clash on
 
1988   the default action if the rule has a mid-rule action, such as in:
 
1996 ** GNU M4 is now required when using Bison.
 
1998 * Changes in version 1.35, 2002-03-25:
 
2001   Some projects use Bison's C parser with C++ compilers, and define
 
2002   YYSTYPE as a class.  The recent adjustment of C parsers for data
 
2003   alignment and 64 bit architectures made this impossible.
 
2005   Because for the time being no real solution for C++ parser
 
2006   generation exists, kludges were implemented in the parser to
 
2007   maintain this use.  In the future, when Bison has C++ parsers, this
 
2008   kludge will be disabled.
 
2010   This kludge also addresses some C++ problems when the stack was
 
2013 * Changes in version 1.34, 2002-03-12:
 
2015 ** File name clashes are detected
 
2016   $ bison foo.y -d -o foo.x
 
2017   fatal error: header and parser would both be named "foo.x"
 
2019 ** A missing ";" at the end of a rule triggers a warning
 
2020   In accordance with POSIX, and in agreement with other
 
2021   Yacc implementations, Bison will mandate this semicolon in the near
 
2022   future.  This eases the implementation of a Bison parser of Bison
 
2023   grammars by making this grammar LALR(1) instead of LR(2).  To
 
2024   facilitate the transition, this release introduces a warning.
 
2026 ** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31, as they caused too
 
2027   many portability hassles.
 
2029 ** DJGPP support added.
 
2031 ** Fix test suite portability problems.
 
2033 * Changes in version 1.33, 2002-02-07:
 
2036   Groff could not be compiled for the definition of size_t was lacking
 
2037   under some conditions.
 
2042 * Changes in version 1.32, 2002-01-23:
 
2044 ** Fix Yacc output file names
 
2046 ** Portability fixes
 
2048 ** Italian, Dutch translations
 
2050 * Changes in version 1.31, 2002-01-14:
 
2054 ** GNU Gettext and %expect
 
2055   GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7.  Now that
 
2056   Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
 
2057   too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
 
2058   does not trigger an error when the input file is named "plural.y".
 
2060 ** Use of alloca in parsers
 
2061   If YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA is defined to 0, then the parsers will use
 
2062   malloc exclusively.  Since 1.29, but was not NEWS'ed.
 
2064   alloca is used only when compiled with GCC, to avoid portability
 
2067 ** yyparse now returns 2 if memory is exhausted; formerly it dumped core.
 
2069 ** When the generated parser lacks debugging code, YYDEBUG is now 0
 
2070   (as POSIX requires) instead of being undefined.
 
2073   Bison has always permitted actions such as { $$ = $1 }: it adds the
 
2074   ending semicolon.  Now if in Yacc compatibility mode, the semicolon
 
2075   is no longer output: one has to write { $$ = $1; }.
 
2077 ** Better C++ compliance
 
2078   The output parsers try to respect C++ namespaces.
 
2079   [This turned out to be a failed experiment, and it was reverted later.]
 
2082   Fixed bugs when reporting useless nonterminals.
 
2085   The parsers work properly on 64 bit hosts.
 
2088   Some calls to strerror resulted in scrambled or missing error messages.
 
2091   When the number of shift/reduce conflicts is correct, don't issue
 
2094 ** The verbose report includes the rule line numbers.
 
2096 ** Rule line numbers are fixed in traces.
 
2098 ** Swedish translation
 
2101   Verbose parse error messages from the parsers are better looking.
 
2102   Before: parse error: unexpected `'/'', expecting `"number"' or `'-'' or `'(''
 
2103      Now: parse error: unexpected '/', expecting "number" or '-' or '('
 
2105 ** Fixed parser memory leaks.
 
2106   When the generated parser was using malloc to extend its stacks, the
 
2107   previous allocations were not freed.
 
2109 ** Fixed verbose output file.
 
2110   Some newlines were missing.
 
2111   Some conflicts in state descriptions were missing.
 
2113 ** Fixed conflict report.
 
2114   Option -v was needed to get the result.
 
2118   Mismatches are errors, not warnings.
 
2120 ** Fixed incorrect processing of some invalid input.
 
2122 ** Fixed CPP guards: 9foo.h uses BISON_9FOO_H instead of 9FOO_H.
 
2124 ** Fixed some typos in the documentation.
 
2126 ** %token MY_EOF 0 is supported.
 
2127   Before, MY_EOF was silently renumbered as 257.
 
2129 ** doc/refcard.tex is updated.
 
2131 ** %output, %file-prefix, %name-prefix.
 
2135   New, aliasing "--output-file".
 
2137 * Changes in version 1.30, 2001-10-26:
 
2139 ** "--defines" and "--graph" have now an optional argument which is the
 
2140   output file name. "-d" and "-g" do not change; they do not take any
 
2143 ** "%source_extension" and "%header_extension" are removed, failed
 
2146 ** Portability fixes.
 
2148 * Changes in version 1.29, 2001-09-07:
 
2150 ** The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used
 
2151   with common autoconfiguration schemes.  If you still use ancient compilers
 
2152   that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option
 
2153   "-Dconst=".  Autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this.
 
2155 ** Added "-g" and "--graph".
 
2157 ** The Bison manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
 
2159 ** The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension.
 
2161 ** Russian translation added.
 
2163 ** NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
 
2165 ** Added the old Bison reference card.
 
2167 ** Added "--locations" and "%locations".
 
2169 ** Added "-S" and "--skeleton".
 
2171 ** "%raw", "-r", "--raw" is disabled.
 
2173 ** Special characters are escaped when output.  This solves the problems
 
2174   of the #line lines with path names including backslashes.
 
2177   "%yacc", "%fixed_output_files", "%defines", "%no_parser", "%verbose",
 
2178   "%debug", "%source_extension" and "%header_extension".
 
2181   Automatic location tracking.
 
2183 * Changes in version 1.28, 1999-07-06:
 
2185 ** Should compile better now with K&R compilers.
 
2189 ** Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character.
 
2191 ** There is now a FAQ.
 
2193 * Changes in version 1.27:
 
2195 ** The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on
 
2196   some systems has been fixed.
 
2198 * Changes in version 1.26:
 
2200 ** Bison now uses Automake.
 
2202 ** New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>.
 
2204 ** Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258.
 
2206 ** Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable.
 
2208 ** A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed.
 
2210 ** Problems when closing files should now be reported.
 
2212 ** Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do
 
2213   not provide alloca().
 
2215 * Changes in version 1.25, 1995-10-16:
 
2217 ** Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading
 
2218 the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it.
 
2220 ** Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for
 
2221 example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead
 
2222 of choosing a name like LESSEQ.
 
2224 ** The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names
 
2225 and numbers) into the parser file.  The yylex function can use this
 
2226 table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other
 
2229 ** The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor
 
2230 directives in the parser file.
 
2232 ** The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not
 
2233 Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros.
 
2235 ** The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including
 
2236 the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine.
 
2237 The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of
 
2238 a switch statement body.
 
2240 * Changes in version 1.23:
 
2242 The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be
 
2243 passed into yyparse.  The argument should have type void *.  It should
 
2244 actually point to an object.  Grammar actions can access the variable
 
2245 by casting it to the proper pointer type.
 
2247 Line numbers in output file corrected.
 
2249 * Changes in version 1.22:
 
2251 --help option added.
 
2253 * Changes in version 1.20:
 
2255 Output file does not redefine const for C++.
 
2259 Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
2261 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.
 
2263 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 
2264 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 
2265 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 
2266 (at your option) any later version.
 
2268 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 
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