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   3
   4 Changes in version 2.1a:
   5
   6 * New warning: unused values
   7   Typed right-hand side symbols whose value are not used are reported.
   8   For instance:
   9
  10      exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; }
  11         | exp "+" exp
  12         ;
  13
  14   will trigger a warning about $$ and $5 in the first rule, and $3 in
  15   the second ($1 is copied to $$ by the default rule).  This example
  16   most likely contains three errors, and should be rewritten as:
  17
  18      exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $$ = $1 ? $3 : $5; }
  19         | exp "+" exp         { $$ = $1 + $3; }
  20         ;
  21
  22   However, if the original actions were really intended, the warnings
  23   can be suppressed by letting Bison believe the values are used, e.g.:
  24
  25      exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; (void) ($$, $5); }
  26         | exp "+" exp         { $$ = $1; (void) $3; }
  27         ;
  28
  29   The warning is intended to help catching lost values and memory leaks.
  30   If a value is ignored, its associated memory typically is not reclaimed.
  31
  32 * %destructor vs. YYABORT, YYACCEPT, and YYERROR.
  33   Destructors are now called when user code invokes YYABORT, YYACCEPT,
  34   and YYERROR, for all objects on the stack, other than objects
  35   corresponding to the right-hand side of the current rule.
  36
  37 * %expect, %expect-rr
  38   Incorrect numbers of expected conflicts are now actual errors,
  39   instead of warnings.
  40
  41 * GLR, YACC parsers.
  42   The %parse-params are available in the %destructor's (and the
  43   experimental %printer's) as per the documentation.
  44
  45 * Bison now warns if it finds a stray `$' or `@' in an action.
  46
  47 * %require "VERSION"
  48   To specify that the grammar file depends on features implemented in
  49   Bison version VERSION or higher.
  50
  51 * lalr1.cc: The token and value types are now class members.
  52   The tokens were defined as free form enums and cpp macros.  YYSTYPE
  53   was defined as a free form union.  They are now class members:
  54   tokens are enumerations of the `yy::parser::token' struct, and the
  55   semantic values have the `yy::parser::semantic_type' type.
  56
  57   If you do not want or can update to this scheme, the directive
  58   `%define "global_tokens_and_yystype" "1"' triggers the global
  59   definition of tokens and YYSTYPE.  This change is suitable both
  60   for previous releases of Bison, and this one.
  61
  62   If you wish to update, then make sure older version of Bison will
  63   fail using `%require "2.1a"'.
  64
  65 * DJGPP support added.
  66
  67 Changes in version 2.1, 2005-09-16:
  68
  69 * The C++ lalr1.cc skeleton supports %lex-param.
  70
  71 * Bison-generated parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like
  72   "syntax error" into languages other than English.  The default
  73   language is still English.  For details, please see the new
  74   Internationalization section of the Bison manual.  Software
  75   distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file.  Thanks to
  76   Bruno Haible for this new feature.
  77
  78 * Wording in the Bison-generated parsers has been changed slightly to
  79   simplify translation.  In particular, the message "memory exhausted"
  80   has replaced "parser stack overflow", as the old message was not
  81   always accurate for modern Bison-generated parsers.
  82
  83 * Destructors are now called when the parser aborts, for all symbols left
  84   behind on the stack.  Also, the start symbol is now destroyed after a
  85   successful parse.  In both cases, the behavior was formerly inconsistent.
  86
  87 * When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated parsers no longer
  88   quote the literal strings associated with tokens.  For example, for
  89   a syntax error associated with '%token NUM "number"' they might
  90   print 'syntax error, unexpected number' instead of 'syntax error,
  91   unexpected "number"'.
  92
  93 Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25:
  94
  95 * Possibly-incompatible changes
  96
  97   - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
  98     (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
  99     problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection.  You can "#define
 100     YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read
 101     the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.
 102
 103   - Error token location.
 104     During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
 105     to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
 106     the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
 107     recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
 108
 109   - Semicolon changes:
 110     . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
 111     . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
 112
 113   - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
 114     string literals.  They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
 115     dropped support for them.  Better diagnostics are now generated if
 116     forget a closing quote.
 117
 118   - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
 119
 120 * New features
 121
 122   - GLR grammars now support locations.
 123
 124   - New directive: %initial-action.
 125     This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
 126     initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
 127
 128   - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
 129     reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.
 130
 131   - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., `%token FOO 0x12d'.
 132     This is a GNU extension.
 133
 134   - The option `--report=lookahead' was changed to `--report=look-ahead'.
 135     The old spelling still works, but is not documented and will be
 136     removed.
 137
 138   - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
 139
 140   - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
 141     yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
 142
 143 * Bug fixes
 144
 145   - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
 146     This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
 147     reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
 148     are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts).  However, in future
 149     versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
 150     these violations will become errors again.
 151
 152   - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer
 153     arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
 154
 155   - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
 156 \f
 157 Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01:
 158
 159 * The documentation license has been upgraded to version 1.2
 160   of the GNU Free Documentation License.
 161
 162 * syntax error processing
 163
 164   - In Yacc-style parsers YYLLOC_DEFAULT is now used to compute error
 165     locations too.  This fixes bugs in error-location computation.
 166
 167   - %destructor
 168     It is now possible to reclaim the memory associated to symbols
 169     discarded during error recovery.  This feature is still experimental.
 170
 171   - %error-verbose
 172     This new directive is preferred over YYERROR_VERBOSE.
 173
 174   - #defining yyerror to steal internal variables is discouraged.
 175     It is not guaranteed to work forever.
 176
 177 * POSIX conformance
 178
 179   - Semicolons are once again optional at the end of grammar rules.
 180     This reverts to the behavior of Bison 1.33 and earlier, and improves
 181     compatibility with Yacc.
 182
 183   - `parse error' -> `syntax error'
 184     Bison now uniformly uses the term `syntax error'; formerly, the code
 185     and manual sometimes used the term `parse error' instead.  POSIX
 186     requires `syntax error' in diagnostics, and it was thought better to
 187     be consistent.
 188
 189   - The documentation now emphasizes that yylex and yyerror must be
 190     declared before use.  C99 requires this.
 191
 192   - Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like UCNs and
 193     backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires.
 194
 195   - File names are properly escaped in C output.  E.g., foo\bar.y is
 196     output as "foo\\bar.y".
 197
 198   - Yacc command and library now available
 199     The Bison distribution now installs a `yacc' command, as POSIX requires.
 200     Also, Bison now installs a small library liby.a containing
 201     implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions.
 202     This library is normally not useful, but POSIX requires it.
 203
 204   - Type clashes now generate warnings, not errors.
 205
 206   - If the user does not define YYSTYPE as a macro, Bison now declares it
 207     using typedef instead of defining it as a macro.
 208     For consistency, YYLTYPE is also declared instead of defined.
 209
 210 * Other compatibility issues
 211
 212   - %union directives can now have a tag before the `{', e.g., the
 213     directive `%union foo {...}' now generates the C code
 214     `typedef union foo { ... } YYSTYPE;'; this is for Yacc compatibility.
 215     The default union tag is `YYSTYPE', for compatibility with Solaris 9 Yacc.
 216     For consistency, YYLTYPE's struct tag is now `YYLTYPE' not `yyltype'.
 217     This is for compatibility with both Yacc and Bison 1.35.
 218
 219   - `;' is output before the terminating `}' of an action, for
 220     compatibility with Bison 1.35.
 221
 222   - Bison now uses a Yacc-style format for conflict reports, e.g.,
 223     `conflicts: 2 shift/reduce, 1 reduce/reduce'.
 224
 225   - `yystype' and `yyltype' are now obsolescent macros instead of being
 226     typedefs or tags; they are no longer documented and are planned to be
 227     withdrawn in a future release.
 228
 229 * GLR parser notes
 230
 231   - GLR and inline
 232     Users of Bison have to decide how they handle the portability of the
 233     C keyword `inline'.
 234
 235   - `parsing stack overflow...' -> `parser stack overflow'
 236     GLR parsers now report `parser stack overflow' as per the Bison manual.
 237
 238 * Bison now warns if it detects conflicting outputs to the same file,
 239   e.g., it generates a warning for `bison -d -o foo.h foo.y' since
 240   that command outputs both code and header to foo.h.
 241
 242 * #line in output files
 243   - --no-line works properly.
 244
 245 * Bison can no longer be built by a K&R C compiler; it requires C89 or
 246   later to be built.  This change originally took place a few versions
 247   ago, but nobody noticed until we recently asked someone to try
 248   building Bison with a K&R C compiler.
 249 \f
 250 Changes in version 1.75, 2002-10-14:
 251
 252 * Bison should now work on 64-bit hosts.
 253
 254 * Indonesian translation thanks to Tedi Heriyanto.
 255
 256 * GLR parsers
 257   Fix spurious parse errors.
 258
 259 * Pure parsers
 260   Some people redefine yyerror to steal yyparse' private variables.
 261   Reenable this trick until an official feature replaces it.
 262
 263 * Type Clashes
 264   In agreement with POSIX and with other Yaccs, leaving a default
 265   action is valid when $$ is untyped, and $1 typed:
 266
 267         untyped: ... typed;
 268
 269   but the converse remains an error:
 270
 271         typed: ... untyped;
 272
 273 * Values of mid-rule actions
 274   The following code:
 275
 276         foo: { ... } { $$ = $1; } ...
 277
 278   was incorrectly rejected: $1 is defined in the second mid-rule
 279   action, and is equal to the $$ of the first mid-rule action.
 280 \f
 281 Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04:
 282
 283 * GLR parsing
 284   The declaration
 285      %glr-parser
 286   causes Bison to produce a Generalized LR (GLR) parser, capable of handling
 287   almost any context-free grammar, ambiguous or not.  The new declarations
 288   %dprec and %merge on grammar rules allow parse-time resolution of
 289   ambiguities.  Contributed by Paul Hilfinger.
 290
 291   Unfortunately Bison 1.50 does not work properly on 64-bit hosts
 292   like the Alpha, so please stick to 32-bit hosts for now.
 293
 294 * Output Directory
 295   When not in Yacc compatibility mode, when the output file was not
 296   specified, running `bison foo/bar.y' created `foo/bar.c'.  It
 297   now creates `bar.c'.
 298
 299 * Undefined token
 300   The undefined token was systematically mapped to 2 which prevented
 301   the use of 2 by the user.  This is no longer the case.
 302
 303 * Unknown token numbers
 304   If yylex returned an out of range value, yyparse could die.  This is
 305   no longer the case.
 306
 307 * Error token
 308   According to POSIX, the error token must be 256.
 309   Bison extends this requirement by making it a preference: *if* the
 310   user specified that one of her tokens is numbered 256, then error
 311   will be mapped onto another number.
 312
 313 * Verbose error messages
 314   They no longer report `..., expecting error or...' for states where
 315   error recovery is possible.
 316
 317 * End token
 318   Defaults to `$end' instead of `$'.
 319
 320 * Error recovery now conforms to documentation and to POSIX
 321   When a Bison-generated parser encounters a syntax error, it now pops
 322   the stack until it finds a state that allows shifting the error
 323   token.  Formerly, it popped the stack until it found a state that
 324   allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the
 325   error token.  The new behavior has long been the documented behavior,
 326   and has long been required by POSIX.  For more details, please see
 327   Paul Eggert, "Reductions during Bison error handling" (2002-05-20)
 328   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2002-05/msg00038.html>.
 329
 330 * Traces
 331   Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.
 332
 333 * Larger grammars
 334   Larger grammars are now supported (larger token numbers, larger grammar
 335   size (= sum of the LHS and RHS lengths), larger LALR tables).
 336   Formerly, many of these numbers ran afoul of 16-bit limits;
 337   now these limits are 32 bits on most hosts.
 338
 339 * Explicit initial rule
 340   Bison used to play hacks with the initial rule, which the user does
 341   not write.  It is now explicit, and visible in the reports and
 342   graphs as rule 0.
 343
 344 * Useless rules
 345   Before, Bison reported the useless rules, but, although not used,
 346   included them in the parsers.  They are now actually removed.
 347
 348 * Useless rules, useless nonterminals
 349   They are now reported, as a warning, with their locations.
 350
 351 * Rules never reduced
 352   Rules that can never be reduced because of conflicts are now
 353   reported.
 354
 355 * Incorrect `Token not used'
 356   On a grammar such as
 357
 358            %token useless useful
 359            %%
 360            exp: '0' %prec useful;
 361
 362   where a token was used to set the precedence of the last rule,
 363   bison reported both `useful' and `useless' as useless tokens.
 364
 365 * Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31
 366   as they caused too many portability hassles.
 367
 368 * Default locations
 369   By an accident of design, the default computation of @$ was
 370   performed after another default computation was performed: @$ = @1.
 371   The latter is now removed: YYLLOC_DEFAULT is fully responsible of
 372   the computation of @$.
 373
 374 * Token end-of-file
 375   The token end of file may be specified by the user, in which case,
 376   the user symbol is used in the reports, the graphs, and the verbose
 377   error messages instead of `$end', which remains being the default.
 378   For instance
 379      %token MYEOF 0
 380   or
 381      %token MYEOF 0 "end of file"
 382
 383 * Semantic parser
 384   This old option, which has been broken for ages, is removed.
 385
 386 * New translations
 387   Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Alexandre Folle de Menezes.
 388   Croatian, thanks to Denis Lackovic.
 389
 390 * Incorrect token definitions
 391   When given `%token 'a' "A"', Bison used to output `#define 'a' 65'.
 392
 393 * Token definitions as enums
 394   Tokens are output both as the traditional #define's, and, provided
 395   the compiler supports ANSI C or is a C++ compiler, as enums.
 396   This lets debuggers display names instead of integers.
 397
 398 * Reports
 399   In addition to --verbose, bison supports --report=THINGS, which
 400   produces additional information:
 401   - itemset
 402     complete the core item sets with their closure
 403   - lookahead [changed to `look-ahead' in 1.875e and later]
 404     explicitly associate look-ahead tokens to items
 405   - solved
 406     describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
 407     Bison used to systematically output this information on top of
 408     the report.  Solved conflicts are now attached to their states.
 409
 410 * Type clashes
 411   Previous versions don't complain when there is a type clash on
 412   the default action if the rule has a mid-rule action, such as in:
 413
 414       %type <foo> bar
 415       %%
 416       bar: '0' {} '0';
 417
 418   This is fixed.
 419
 420 * GNU M4 is now required when using Bison.
 421 \f
 422 Changes in version 1.35, 2002-03-25:
 423
 424 * C Skeleton
 425   Some projects use Bison's C parser with C++ compilers, and define
 426   YYSTYPE as a class.  The recent adjustment of C parsers for data
 427   alignment and 64 bit architectures made this impossible.
 428
 429   Because for the time being no real solution for C++ parser
 430   generation exists, kludges were implemented in the parser to
 431   maintain this use.  In the future, when Bison has C++ parsers, this
 432   kludge will be disabled.
 433
 434   This kludge also addresses some C++ problems when the stack was
 435   extended.
 436 \f
 437 Changes in version 1.34, 2002-03-12:
 438
 439 * File name clashes are detected
 440   $ bison foo.y -d -o foo.x
 441   fatal error: header and parser would both be named `foo.x'
 442
 443 * A missing `;' at the end of a rule triggers a warning
 444   In accordance with POSIX, and in agreement with other
 445   Yacc implementations, Bison will mandate this semicolon in the near
 446   future.  This eases the implementation of a Bison parser of Bison
 447   grammars by making this grammar LALR(1) instead of LR(2).  To
 448   facilitate the transition, this release introduces a warning.
 449
 450 * Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31, as they caused too
 451   many portability hassles.
 452
 453 * DJGPP support added.
 454
 455 * Fix test suite portability problems.
 456 \f
 457 Changes in version 1.33, 2002-02-07:
 458
 459 * Fix C++ issues
 460   Groff could not be compiled for the definition of size_t was lacking
 461   under some conditions.
 462
 463 * Catch invalid @n
 464   As is done with $n.
 465 \f
 466 Changes in version 1.32, 2002-01-23:
 467
 468 * Fix Yacc output file names
 469
 470 * Portability fixes
 471
 472 * Italian, Dutch translations
 473 \f
 474 Changes in version 1.31, 2002-01-14:
 475
 476 * Many Bug Fixes
 477
 478 * GNU Gettext and %expect
 479   GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7.  Now that
 480   Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
 481   too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
 482   does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
 483
 484 * Use of alloca in parsers
 485   If YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA is defined to 0, then the parsers will use
 486   malloc exclusively.  Since 1.29, but was not NEWS'ed.
 487
 488   alloca is used only when compiled with GCC, to avoid portability
 489   problems as on AIX.
 490
 491 * yyparse now returns 2 if memory is exhausted; formerly it dumped core.
 492
 493 * When the generated parser lacks debugging code, YYDEBUG is now 0
 494   (as POSIX requires) instead of being undefined.
 495
 496 * User Actions
 497   Bison has always permitted actions such as { $$ = $1 }: it adds the
 498   ending semicolon.  Now if in Yacc compatibility mode, the semicolon
 499   is no longer output: one has to write { $$ = $1; }.
 500
 501 * Better C++ compliance
 502   The output parsers try to respect C++ namespaces.
 503   [This turned out to be a failed experiment, and it was reverted later.]
 504
 505 * Reduced Grammars
 506   Fixed bugs when reporting useless nonterminals.
 507
 508 * 64 bit hosts
 509   The parsers work properly on 64 bit hosts.
 510
 511 * Error messages
 512   Some calls to strerror resulted in scrambled or missing error messages.
 513
 514 * %expect
 515   When the number of shift/reduce conflicts is correct, don't issue
 516   any warning.
 517
 518 * The verbose report includes the rule line numbers.
 519
 520 * Rule line numbers are fixed in traces.
 521
 522 * Swedish translation
 523
 524 * Parse errors
 525   Verbose parse error messages from the parsers are better looking.
 526   Before: parse error: unexpected `'/'', expecting `"number"' or `'-'' or `'(''
 527      Now: parse error: unexpected '/', expecting "number" or '-' or '('
 528
 529 * Fixed parser memory leaks.
 530   When the generated parser was using malloc to extend its stacks, the
 531   previous allocations were not freed.
 532
 533 * Fixed verbose output file.
 534   Some newlines were missing.
 535   Some conflicts in state descriptions were missing.
 536
 537 * Fixed conflict report.
 538   Option -v was needed to get the result.
 539
 540 * %expect
 541   Was not used.
 542   Mismatches are errors, not warnings.
 543
 544 * Fixed incorrect processing of some invalid input.
 545
 546 * Fixed CPP guards: 9foo.h uses BISON_9FOO_H instead of 9FOO_H.
 547
 548 * Fixed some typos in the documentation.
 549
 550 * %token MY_EOF 0 is supported.
 551   Before, MY_EOF was silently renumbered as 257.
 552
 553 * doc/refcard.tex is updated.
 554
 555 * %output, %file-prefix, %name-prefix.
 556   New.
 557
 558 * --output
 559   New, aliasing `--output-file'.
 560 \f
 561 Changes in version 1.30, 2001-10-26:
 562
 563 * `--defines' and `--graph' have now an optional argument which is the
 564   output file name. `-d' and `-g' do not change; they do not take any
 565   argument.
 566
 567 * `%source_extension' and `%header_extension' are removed, failed
 568   experiment.
 569
 570 * Portability fixes.
 571 \f
 572 Changes in version 1.29, 2001-09-07:
 573
 574 * The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used
 575   with common autoconfiguration schemes.  If you still use ancient compilers
 576   that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option
 577   `-Dconst='.  autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this.
 578
 579 * Added `-g' and `--graph'.
 580
 581 * The Bison manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
 582
 583 * The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension.
 584
 585 * Russian translation added.
 586
 587 * NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
 588
 589 * Added the old Bison reference card.
 590
 591 * Added `--locations' and `%locations'.
 592
 593 * Added `-S' and `--skeleton'.
 594
 595 * `%raw', `-r', `--raw' is disabled.
 596
 597 * Special characters are escaped when output.  This solves the problems
 598   of the #line lines with path names including backslashes.
 599
 600 * New directives.
 601   `%yacc', `%fixed_output_files', `%defines', `%no_parser', `%verbose',
 602   `%debug', `%source_extension' and `%header_extension'.
 603
 604 * @$
 605   Automatic location tracking.
 606 \f
 607 Changes in version 1.28, 1999-07-06:
 608
 609 * Should compile better now with K&R compilers.
 610
 611 * Added NLS.
 612
 613 * Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character.
 614
 615 * There is now a FAQ.
 616 \f
 617 Changes in version 1.27:
 618
 619 * The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on
 620   some systems has been fixed.
 621 \f
 622 Changes in version 1.26:
 623
 624 * Bison now uses automake.
 625
 626 * New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>.
 627
 628 * Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258.
 629
 630 * Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable.
 631
 632 * A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed.
 633
 634 * Problems when closing files should now be reported.
 635
 636 * Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do
 637   not provide alloca().
 638 \f
 639 Changes in version 1.25, 1995-10-16:
 640
 641 * Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading
 642 the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it.
 643
 644 * Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for
 645 example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead
 646 of chosing a name like LESSEQ.
 647
 648 * The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names
 649 and numbers) into the parser file.  The yylex function can use this
 650 table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other
 651 purposes.
 652
 653 * The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor
 654 directives in the parser file.
 655
 656 * The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not
 657 Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros.
 658
 659 * The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including
 660 the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine.
 661 The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of
 662 a switch statement body.
 663 \f
 664 Changes in version 1.23:
 665
 666 The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be
 667 passed into yyparse.  The argument should have type void *.  It should
 668 actually point to an object.  Grammar actions can access the variable
 669 by casting it to the proper pointer type.
 670
 671 Line numbers in output file corrected.
 672 \f
 673 Changes in version 1.22:
 674
 675 --help option added.
 676 \f
 677 Changes in version 1.20:
 678
 679 Output file does not redefine const for C++.
 680
 681 Local Variables:
 682 mode: outline
 683 End:
 684
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 689
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