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.
21 Version 2.7 introduced caret errors, for a prettier output. These are now
22 activated by default. The old format can still be used by invoking Bison
23 with -fno-caret (or -fnone).
25 *** Enhancements of the -Werror option
27 The -Werror=CATEGORY option is now recognized, and will treat specified
28 warnings as errors. The warnings need not have been explicitly activated
29 using the -W option, this is similar to what GCC 4.7 does.
31 For example, given the following command line, Bison will treat both
32 warnings related to POSIX Yacc incompatibilities and S/R conflicts as
33 errors (and only those):
35 $ bison -Werror=yacc,error=conflicts-sr input.y
37 If no categories are specified, -Werror will make all active warnings into
38 errors. For example, the following line does the same the previous example:
40 $ bison -Werror -Wnone -Wyacc -Wconflicts-sr input.y
42 (By default -Wconflicts-sr,conflicts-rr,deprecated,other is enabled.)
44 Note that the categories in this -Werror option may not be prefixed with
45 "no-". However, -Wno-error[=CATEGORY] is valid.
47 Note that -y enables -Werror=yacc. Therefore it is now possible to require
48 Yacc-like behavior (e.g., always generate y.tab.c), but to report
49 incompatibilities as warnings: "-y -Wno-error=yacc".
51 *** The display of warnings is now richer
53 The option that controls a given warning is now displayed:
55 foo.y:4.6: warning: type clash on default action: <foo> != <bar> [-Wother]
57 In the case of warnings treated as errors, the prefix is changed from
58 "warning: " to "error: ", and the suffix is displayed, in a manner similar
59 to GCC, as [-Werror=CATEGORY].
61 For instance, where the previous version of Bison would report (and exit
64 bison: warnings being treated as errors
65 input.y:1.1: warning: stray ',' treated as white space
69 input.y:1.1: error: stray ',' treated as white space [-Werror=other]
71 *** Deprecated constructs
73 The new 'deprecated' warning category flags obsolete constructs whose
74 support will be discontinued. It is enabled by default. These warnings
75 used to be reported as 'other' warnings.
77 *** Useless semantic types
79 Bison now warns about useless (uninhabited) semantic types. Since
80 semantic types are not declared to Bison (they are defined in the opaque
81 %union structure), it is %printer/%destructor directives about useless
82 types that trigger the warning:
86 %printer {} <type1> <type3>
87 %destructor {} <type2> <type4>
89 nterm: term { $$ = $1; };
91 3.28-34: warning: type <type3> is used, but is not associated to any symbol
92 4.28-34: warning: type <type4> is used, but is not associated to any symbol
94 *** Undefined but unused symbols
96 Bison used to raise an error for undefined symbols that are not used in
97 the grammar. This is now only a warning.
100 %destructor {} symbol2
105 *** Useless destructors or printers
107 Bison now warns about useless destructors or printers. In the following
108 example, the printer for <type1>, and the destructor for <type2> are
109 useless: all symbols of <type1> (token1) already have a printer, and all
110 symbols of type <type2> (token2) already have a destructor.
112 %token <type1> token1
116 %printer {} token1 <type1> <type3>
117 %destructor {} token2 <type2> <type4>
121 The warnings and error messages about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce
122 conflicts have been normalized. For instance on the following foo.y file:
126 exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0';
128 compare the previous version of bison:
131 foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
132 $ bison -Werror foo.y
133 bison: warnings being treated as errors
134 foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
136 with the new behavior:
139 foo.y: warning: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Wconflicts-sr]
140 foo.y: warning: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Wconflicts-rr]
141 $ bison -Werror foo.y
142 foo.y: error: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Werror=conflicts-sr]
143 foo.y: error: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Werror=conflicts-rr]
145 When %expect or %expect-rr is used, such as with bar.y:
150 exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0';
155 bar.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
156 bar.y: expected 0 shift/reduce conflicts
157 bar.y: expected 0 reduce/reduce conflicts
162 bar.y: error: shift/reduce conflicts: 1 found, 0 expected
163 bar.y: error: reduce/reduce conflicts: 2 found, 0 expected
165 ** Additional yylex/yyparse arguments
167 The new directive %param declares additional arguments to both yylex and
168 yyparse. The %lex-param, %parse-param, and %param directives support one
169 or more arguments. Instead of
171 %lex-param {arg1_type *arg1}
172 %lex-param {arg2_type *arg2}
173 %parse-param {arg1_type *arg1}
174 %parse-param {arg2_type *arg2}
178 %param {arg1_type *arg1} {arg2_type *arg2}
180 ** Java skeleton improvements
182 The constants for token names were moved to the Lexer interface. Also, it
183 is possible to add code to the parser's constructors using "%code init"
184 and "%define init_throws".
186 ** C++ skeletons improvements
188 *** The parser header is no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
190 Using %defines is now optional. Without it, the needed support classes
191 are defined in the generated parser, instead of additional files (such as
192 location.hh, position.hh and stack.hh).
194 *** Locations are no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
196 Both lalr1.cc and glr.cc no longer require %location.
198 *** syntax_error exception (lalr1.cc)
200 The C++ parser features a syntax_error exception, which can be
201 thrown from the scanner or from user rules to raise syntax errors.
202 This facilitates reporting errors caught in sub-functions (e.g.,
203 rejecting too large integral literals from a conversion function
204 used by the scanner, or rejecting invalid combinations from a
205 factory invoked by the user actions).
207 *** The epilogue is no longer affected by internal #defines
209 The glr.c skeleton uses defines such as #define yylval (yystackp->yyval) in
210 generated code. These weren't properly undefined before the inclusion of
211 the user epilogue, so functions such as the following were butchered by the
212 preprocessor expansion:
214 int yylex (YYSTYPE *yylval);
216 This is has been fixed: yylval, yynerrs, yychar, and yylloc are now valid
217 identifiers for user-provided variables.
219 ** Renamed %define variables
221 The following variables have been renamed for consistency. Backward
222 compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended.
224 lr.default-reductions -> lr.default-reduction
225 lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state
226 namespace -> api.namespace
227 stype -> api.value.type
229 ** Variable api.token.prefix
231 The variable api.token.prefix changes the way tokens are identified in
232 the generated files. This is especially useful to avoid collisions
233 with identifiers in the target language. For instance
235 %token FILE for ERROR
236 %define api.token.prefix "TOK_"
238 start: FILE for ERROR;
240 will generate the definition of the symbols TOK_FILE, TOK_for, and
241 TOK_ERROR in the generated sources. In particular, the scanner must
242 use these prefixed token names, although the grammar itself still
243 uses the short names (as in the sample rule given above).
247 ** Variable parse.error
249 This variable controls the verbosity of error messages. The use of the
250 %error-verbose directive is deprecated in favor of "%define parse.error
253 ** Semantic predicates
255 The new, experimental, semantic-predicate feature allows actions of the
256 form "%?{ BOOLEAN-EXPRESSION }", which cause syntax errors (as for
257 YYERROR) if the expression evaluates to 0, and are evaluated immediately
258 in GLR parsers, rather than being deferred. The result is that they allow
259 the programmer to prune possible parses based on the values of run-time
262 ** The directive %expect-rr is now an error in non GLR mode
264 It used to be an error only if used in non GLR mode, _and_ if there are
265 reduce/reduce conflicts.
267 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.7 (2012-12-12) [stable]
271 Warnings about uninitialized yylloc in yyparse have been fixed.
273 Restored C90 compliance (yet no report was ever made).
275 ** Diagnostics are improved
277 *** Changes in the format of error messages
279 This used to be the format of many error reports:
281 input.y:2.7-12: %type redeclaration for exp
282 input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
286 input.y:2.7-12: error: %type redeclaration for exp
287 input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
289 *** New format for error reports: carets
291 Caret errors have been added to Bison:
293 input.y:2.7-12: error: %type redeclaration for exp
296 input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
302 input.y:3.20-23: error: ambiguous reference: '$exp'
303 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
305 input.y:3.1-3: refers to: $exp at $$
306 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
308 input.y:3.6-8: refers to: $exp at $1
309 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
311 input.y:3.14-16: refers to: $exp at $3
312 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
315 The default behaviour for now is still not to display these unless
316 explictly asked with -fcaret (or -fall). However, in a later release, it
317 will be made the default behavior (but may still be deactivated with
320 ** New value for %define variable: api.pure full
322 The %define variable api.pure requests a pure (reentrant) parser. However,
323 for historical reasons, using it in a location-tracking Yacc parser
324 resulted in a yyerror function that did not take a location as a
325 parameter. With this new value, the user may request a better pure parser,
326 where yyerror does take a location as a parameter (in location-tracking
329 The use of "%define api.pure true" is deprecated in favor of this new
330 "%define api.pure full".
332 ** New %define variable: api.location.type (glr.cc, lalr1.cc, lalr1.java)
334 The %define variable api.location.type defines the name of the type to use
335 for locations. When defined, Bison no longer generates the position.hh
336 and location.hh files, nor does the parser will include them: the user is
337 then responsible to define her type.
339 This can be used in programs with several parsers to factor their location
340 and position files: let one of them generate them, and the others just use
343 This feature was actually introduced, but not documented, in Bison 2.5,
344 under the name "location_type" (which is maintained for backward
347 For consistency, lalr1.java's %define variables location_type and
348 position_type are deprecated in favor of api.location.type and
351 ** Exception safety (lalr1.cc)
353 The parse function now catches exceptions, uses the %destructors to
354 release memory (the lookahead symbol and the symbols pushed on the stack)
355 before re-throwing the exception.
357 This feature is somewhat experimental. User feedback would be
360 ** Graph improvements in DOT and XSLT
362 The graphical presentation of the states is more readable: their shape is
363 now rectangular, the state number is clearly displayed, and the items are
364 numbered and left-justified.
366 The reductions are now explicitly represented as transitions to other
367 diamond shaped nodes.
369 These changes are present in both --graph output and xml2dot.xsl XSLT
370 processing, with minor (documented) differences.
372 ** %language is no longer an experimental feature.
374 The introduction of this feature, in 2.4, was four years ago. The
375 --language option and the %language directive are no longer experimental.
379 The sections about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts resolution
380 have been fixed and extended.
382 Although introduced more than four years ago, XML and Graphviz reports
383 were not properly documented.
385 The translation of mid-rule actions is now described.
387 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.5 (2012-11-07) [stable]
389 We consider compiler warnings about Bison generated parsers to be bugs.
390 Rather than working around them in your own project, please consider
391 reporting them to us.
395 Warnings about uninitialized yylval and/or yylloc for push parsers with a
396 pure interface have been fixed for GCC 4.0 up to 4.8, and Clang 2.9 to
399 Other issues in the test suite have been addressed.
401 Nul characters are correctly displayed in error messages.
403 When possible, yylloc is correctly initialized before calling yylex. It
404 is no longer necessary to initialize it in the %initial-action.
406 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.4 (2012-10-23) [stable]
408 Bison 2.6.3's --version was incorrect. This release fixes this issue.
410 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.3 (2012-10-22) [stable]
414 Bugs and portability issues in the test suite have been fixed.
416 Some errors in translations have been addressed, and --help now directs
417 users to the appropriate place to report them.
419 Stray Info files shipped by accident are removed.
421 Incorrect definitions of YY_, issued by yacc.c when no parser header is
422 generated, are removed.
424 All the generated headers are self-contained.
426 ** Header guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
428 In order to avoid collisions, the header guards are now
429 YY_<PREFIX>_<FILE>_INCLUDED, instead of merely <PREFIX>_<FILE>.
430 For instance the header generated from
432 %define api.prefix "calc"
433 %defines "lib/parse.h"
435 will use YY_CALC_LIB_PARSE_H_INCLUDED as guard.
437 ** Fix compiler warnings in the generated parser (yacc.c, glr.c)
439 The compilation of pure parsers (%define api.pure) can trigger GCC
442 input.c: In function 'yyparse':
443 input.c:1503:12: warning: 'yylval' may be used uninitialized in this
444 function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
448 This is now fixed; pragmas to avoid these warnings are no longer needed.
450 Warnings from clang ("equality comparison with extraneous parentheses" and
451 "function declared 'noreturn' should not return") have also been
454 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.2 (2012-08-03) [stable]
458 Buffer overruns, complaints from Flex, and portability issues in the test
459 suite have been fixed.
461 ** Spaces in %lex- and %parse-param (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
463 Trailing end-of-lines in %parse-param or %lex-param would result in
464 invalid C++. This is fixed.
466 ** Spurious spaces and end-of-lines
468 The generated files no longer end (nor start) with empty lines.
470 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.1 (2012-07-30) [stable]
472 Bison no longer executes user-specified M4 code when processing a grammar.
476 In addition to the removal of the features announced in Bison 2.6, the
477 next major release will remove the "Temporary hack for adding a semicolon
478 to the user action", as announced in the release 2.5. Instead of:
480 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
484 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
488 *** Type names are now properly escaped.
490 *** glr.cc: set_debug_level and debug_level work as expected.
492 *** Stray @ or $ in actions
494 While Bison used to warn about stray $ or @ in action rules, it did not
495 for other actions such as printers, destructors, or initial actions. It
498 ** Type names in actions
500 For consistency with rule actions, it is now possible to qualify $$ by a
501 type-name in destructors, printers, and initial actions. For instance:
503 %printer { fprintf (yyo, "(%d, %f)", $<ival>$, $<fval>$); } <*> <>;
505 will display two values for each typed and untyped symbol (provided
506 that YYSTYPE has both "ival" and "fval" fields).
508 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2012-07-19) [stable]
512 The next major release of Bison will drop support for the following
513 deprecated features. Please report disagreements to bug-bison@gnu.org.
517 Support for generating parsers in K&R C will be removed. Parsers
518 generated for C support ISO C90, and are tested with ISO C99 and ISO C11
521 *** Features deprecated since Bison 1.875
523 The definitions of yystype and yyltype will be removed; use YYSTYPE and
526 YYPARSE_PARAM and YYLEX_PARAM, deprecated in favor of %parse-param and
527 %lex-param, will no longer be supported.
529 Support for the preprocessor symbol YYERROR_VERBOSE will be removed, use
532 *** The generated header will be included (yacc.c)
534 Instead of duplicating the content of the generated header (definition of
535 YYSTYPE, yyparse declaration etc.), the generated parser will include it,
536 as is already the case for GLR or C++ parsers. This change is deferred
537 because existing versions of ylwrap (e.g., Automake 1.12.1) do not support
540 ** Generated Parser Headers
542 *** Guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
544 The generated headers are now guarded, as is already the case for C++
545 parsers (lalr1.cc). For instance, with --defines=foo.h:
550 #endif /* !YY_FOO_H */
552 *** New declarations (yacc.c, glr.c)
554 The generated header now declares yydebug and yyparse. Both honor
555 --name-prefix=bar_, and yield
557 int bar_parse (void);
561 #define yyparse bar_parse
564 in order to facilitate the inclusion of several parser headers inside a
565 single compilation unit.
567 *** Exported symbols in C++
569 The symbols YYTOKEN_TABLE and YYERROR_VERBOSE, which were defined in the
570 header, are removed, as they prevent the possibility of including several
571 generated headers from a single compilation unit.
575 For the same reasons, the undocumented and unused macro YYLSP_NEEDED is no
578 ** New %define variable: api.prefix
580 Now that the generated headers are more complete and properly protected
581 against multiple inclusions, constant names, such as YYSTYPE are a
582 problem. While yyparse and others are properly renamed by %name-prefix,
583 YYSTYPE, YYDEBUG and others have never been affected by it. Because it
584 would introduce backward compatibility issues in projects not expecting
585 YYSTYPE to be renamed, instead of changing the behavior of %name-prefix,
586 it is deprecated in favor of a new %define variable: api.prefix.
588 The following examples compares both:
590 %name-prefix "bar_" | %define api.prefix "bar_"
591 %token <ival> FOO %token <ival> FOO
592 %union { int ival; } %union { int ival; }
598 #ifndef BAR_FOO_H #ifndef BAR_FOO_H
599 # define BAR_FOO_H # define BAR_FOO_H
601 /* Enabling traces. */ /* Enabling traces. */
602 # ifndef YYDEBUG | # ifndef BAR_DEBUG
603 > # if defined YYDEBUG
605 > # define BAR_DEBUG 1
607 > # define BAR_DEBUG 0
610 # define YYDEBUG 0 | # define BAR_DEBUG 0
614 # if YYDEBUG | # if BAR_DEBUG
615 extern int bar_debug; extern int bar_debug;
618 /* Tokens. */ /* Tokens. */
619 # ifndef YYTOKENTYPE | # ifndef BAR_TOKENTYPE
620 # define YYTOKENTYPE | # define BAR_TOKENTYPE
621 enum yytokentype { | enum bar_tokentype {
626 #if ! defined YYSTYPE \ | #if ! defined BAR_STYPE \
627 && ! defined YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED | && ! defined BAR_STYPE_IS_DECLARED
628 typedef union YYSTYPE | typedef union BAR_STYPE
631 } YYSTYPE; | } BAR_STYPE;
632 # define YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED 1 | # define BAR_STYPE_IS_DECLARED 1
635 extern YYSTYPE bar_lval; | extern BAR_STYPE bar_lval;
637 int bar_parse (void); int bar_parse (void);
639 #endif /* !BAR_FOO_H */ #endif /* !BAR_FOO_H */
641 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.1 (2012-06-05) [stable]
645 The next major release will drop support for generating parsers in K&R C.
647 ** yacc.c: YYBACKUP works as expected.
649 ** glr.c improvements:
651 *** Location support is eliminated when not requested:
653 GLR parsers used to include location-related code even when locations were
654 not requested, and therefore not even usable.
656 *** __attribute__ is preserved:
658 __attribute__ is no longer disabled when __STRICT_ANSI__ is defined (i.e.,
659 when -std is passed to GCC).
661 ** lalr1.java: several fixes:
663 The Java parser no longer throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if the
664 first token leads to a syntax error. Some minor clean ups.
668 *** C++11 compatibility:
670 C and C++ parsers use "nullptr" instead of "0" when __cplusplus is 201103L
675 The header files such as "parser.hh", "location.hh", etc. used a constant
676 name for preprocessor guards, for instance:
678 #ifndef BISON_LOCATION_HH
679 # define BISON_LOCATION_HH
681 #endif // !BISON_LOCATION_HH
683 The inclusion guard is now computed from "PREFIX/FILE-NAME", where lower
684 case characters are converted to upper case, and series of
685 non-alphanumerical characters are converted to an underscore.
687 With "bison -o lang++/parser.cc", "location.hh" would now include:
689 #ifndef YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
690 # define YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
692 #endif // !YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
696 The position and location constructors (and their initialize methods)
697 accept new arguments for line and column. Several issues in the
698 documentation were fixed.
700 ** liby is no longer asking for "rpl_fprintf" on some platforms.
702 ** Changes in the manual:
704 *** %printer is documented
706 The "%printer" directive, supported since at least Bison 1.50, is finally
707 documented. The "mfcalc" example is extended to demonstrate it.
709 For consistency with the C skeletons, the C++ parsers now also support
710 "yyoutput" (as an alias to "debug_stream ()").
712 *** Several improvements have been made:
714 The layout for grammar excerpts was changed to a more compact scheme.
715 Named references are motivated. The description of the automaton
716 description file (*.output) is updated to the current format. Incorrect
717 index entries were fixed. Some other errors were fixed.
721 *** Conflicting prototypes with recent/modified Flex.
723 Fixed build problems with the current, unreleased, version of Flex, and
724 some modified versions of 2.5.35, which have modified function prototypes.
726 *** Warnings during the build procedure have been eliminated.
728 *** Several portability problems in the test suite have been fixed:
730 This includes warnings with some compilers, unexpected behavior of tools
731 such as diff, warning messages from the test suite itself, etc.
733 *** The install-pdf target works properly:
735 Running "make install-pdf" (or -dvi, -html, -info, and -ps) no longer
736 halts in the middle of its course.
738 * Changes in version 2.5 (2011-05-14):
740 ** Grammar symbol names can now contain non-initial dashes:
742 Consistently with directives (such as %error-verbose) and with
743 %define variables (e.g. push-pull), grammar symbol names may contain
744 dashes in any position except the beginning. This is a GNU
745 extension over POSIX Yacc. Thus, use of this extension is reported
746 by -Wyacc and rejected in Yacc mode (--yacc).
750 Historically, Yacc and Bison have supported positional references
751 ($n, $$) to allow access to symbol values from inside of semantic
754 Starting from this version, Bison can also accept named references.
755 When no ambiguity is possible, original symbol names may be used
758 if_stmt : "if" cond_expr "then" then_stmt ';'
759 { $if_stmt = mk_if_stmt($cond_expr, $then_stmt); }
761 In the more common case, explicit names may be declared:
763 stmt[res] : "if" expr[cond] "then" stmt[then] "else" stmt[else] ';'
764 { $res = mk_if_stmt($cond, $then, $else); }
766 Location information is also accessible using @name syntax. When
767 accessing symbol names containing dots or dashes, explicit bracketing
768 ($[sym.1]) must be used.
770 These features are experimental in this version. More user feedback
771 will help to stabilize them.
772 Contributed by Alex Rozenman.
774 ** IELR(1) and canonical LR(1):
776 IELR(1) is a minimal LR(1) parser table generation algorithm. That
777 is, given any context-free grammar, IELR(1) generates parser tables
778 with the full language-recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
779 nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1). This reduction
780 in parser states is often an order of magnitude. More importantly,
781 because canonical LR(1)'s extra parser states may contain duplicate
782 conflicts in the case of non-LR(1) grammars, the number of conflicts
783 for IELR(1) is often an order of magnitude less as well. This can
784 significantly reduce the complexity of developing of a grammar.
786 Bison can now generate IELR(1) and canonical LR(1) parser tables in
787 place of its traditional LALR(1) parser tables, which remain the
788 default. You can specify the type of parser tables in the grammar
789 file with these directives:
793 %define lr.type canonical-lr
795 The default-reduction optimization in the parser tables can also be
796 adjusted using "%define lr.default-reductions". For details on both
797 of these features, see the new section "Tuning LR" in the Bison
800 These features are experimental. More user feedback will help to
803 ** LAC (Lookahead Correction) for syntax error handling:
805 Canonical LR, IELR, and LALR can suffer from a couple of problems
806 upon encountering a syntax error. First, the parser might perform
807 additional parser stack reductions before discovering the syntax
808 error. Such reductions can perform user semantic actions that are
809 unexpected because they are based on an invalid token, and they
810 cause error recovery to begin in a different syntactic context than
811 the one in which the invalid token was encountered. Second, when
812 verbose error messages are enabled (with %error-verbose or the
813 obsolete "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE"), the expected token list in the
814 syntax error message can both contain invalid tokens and omit valid
817 The culprits for the above problems are %nonassoc, default
818 reductions in inconsistent states, and parser state merging. Thus,
819 IELR and LALR suffer the most. Canonical LR can suffer only if
820 %nonassoc is used or if default reductions are enabled for
823 LAC is a new mechanism within the parsing algorithm that solves
824 these problems for canonical LR, IELR, and LALR without sacrificing
825 %nonassoc, default reductions, or state merging. When LAC is in
826 use, canonical LR and IELR behave almost exactly the same for both
827 syntactically acceptable and syntactically unacceptable input.
828 While LALR still does not support the full language-recognition
829 power of canonical LR and IELR, LAC at least enables LALR's syntax
830 error handling to correctly reflect LALR's language-recognition
833 Currently, LAC is only supported for deterministic parsers in C.
834 You can enable LAC with the following directive:
836 %define parse.lac full
838 See the new section "LAC" in the Bison manual for additional
839 details including a few caveats.
841 LAC is an experimental feature. More user feedback will help to
844 ** %define improvements:
846 *** Can now be invoked via the command line:
848 Each of these command-line options
851 --define=NAME[=VALUE]
854 --force-define=NAME[=VALUE]
856 is equivalent to this grammar file declaration
858 %define NAME ["VALUE"]
860 except that the manner in which Bison processes multiple definitions
861 for the same NAME differs. Most importantly, -F and --force-define
862 quietly override %define, but -D and --define do not. For further
863 details, see the section "Bison Options" in the Bison manual.
865 *** Variables renamed:
867 The following %define variables
870 lr.keep_unreachable_states
875 lr.keep-unreachable-states
877 The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely
878 for backward compatibility.
880 *** Values no longer need to be quoted in the grammar file:
882 If a %define value is an identifier, it no longer needs to be placed
883 within quotations marks. For example,
885 %define api.push-pull "push"
889 %define api.push-pull push
891 *** Unrecognized variables are now errors not warnings.
893 *** Multiple invocations for any variable is now an error not a warning.
895 ** Unrecognized %code qualifiers are now errors not warnings.
897 ** Character literals not of length one:
899 Previously, Bison quietly converted all character literals to length
900 one. For example, without warning, Bison interpreted the operators in
901 the following grammar to be the same token:
907 Bison now warns when a character literal is not of length one. In
908 some future release, Bison will start reporting an error instead.
910 ** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions:
912 Previously for deterministic parsers in C, if a user semantic action
913 altered yychar, the parser in some cases used the old yychar value to
914 determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax
915 error or upon parser return. This bug has been fixed.
917 ** C++ parsers use YYRHSLOC:
919 Similarly to the C parsers, the C++ parsers now define the YYRHSLOC
920 macro and use it in the default YYLLOC_DEFAULT. You are encouraged
921 to use it. If, for instance, your location structure has "first"
922 and "last" members, instead of
924 # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \
928 (Current).first = (Rhs)[1].location.first; \
929 (Current).last = (Rhs)[N].location.last; \
933 (Current).first = (Current).last = (Rhs)[0].location.last; \
939 # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \
943 (Current).first = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 1).first; \
944 (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, N).last; \
948 (Current).first = (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 0).last; \
952 ** YYLLOC_DEFAULT in C++:
954 The default implementation of YYLLOC_DEFAULT used to be issued in
955 the header file. It is now output in the implementation file, after
956 the user %code sections so that its #ifndef guard does not try to
957 override the user's YYLLOC_DEFAULT if provided.
959 ** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it:
961 YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
962 deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. More recently, it was
963 a documented feature of Bison's experimental Java parsers. As
964 promised in Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, any appearance of YYFAIL in a
965 semantic action now produces a deprecation warning, and Java parsers
966 no longer implement YYFAIL at all. For further details, including a
967 discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL
968 being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry.
970 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action:
972 Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for
973 reductions when the output language defaulted to C (specifically, when
974 neither %yacc, %language, %skeleton, or equivalent command-line
975 options were specified). This allowed actions such as
977 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
981 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
983 As a first step in removing this misfeature, Bison now issues a
984 warning when it appends a semicolon. Moreover, in cases where Bison
985 cannot easily determine whether a semicolon is needed (for example, an
986 action ending with a cpp directive or a braced compound initializer),
987 it no longer appends one. Thus, the C compiler might now complain
988 about a missing semicolon where it did not before. Future releases of
989 Bison will cease to append semicolons entirely.
991 ** Verbose syntax error message fixes:
993 When %error-verbose or the obsolete "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE" is
994 specified, syntax error messages produced by the generated parser
995 include the unexpected token as well as a list of expected tokens.
996 The effect of %nonassoc on these verbose messages has been corrected
997 in two ways, but a more complete fix requires LAC, described above:
999 *** When %nonassoc is used, there can exist parser states that accept no
1000 tokens, and so the parser does not always require a lookahead token
1001 in order to detect a syntax error. Because no unexpected token or
1002 expected tokens can then be reported, the verbose syntax error
1003 message described above is suppressed, and the parser instead
1004 reports the simpler message, "syntax error". Previously, this
1005 suppression was sometimes erroneously triggered by %nonassoc when a
1006 lookahead was actually required. Now verbose messages are
1007 suppressed only when all previous lookaheads have already been
1008 shifted or discarded.
1010 *** Previously, the list of expected tokens erroneously included tokens
1011 that would actually induce a syntax error because conflicts for them
1012 were resolved with %nonassoc in the current parser state. Such
1013 tokens are now properly omitted from the list.
1015 *** Expected token lists are still often wrong due to state merging
1016 (from LALR or IELR) and default reductions, which can both add
1017 invalid tokens and subtract valid tokens. Canonical LR almost
1018 completely fixes this problem by eliminating state merging and
1019 default reductions. However, there is one minor problem left even
1020 when using canonical LR and even after the fixes above. That is,
1021 if the resolution of a conflict with %nonassoc appears in a later
1022 parser state than the one at which some syntax error is
1023 discovered, the conflicted token is still erroneously included in
1024 the expected token list. Bison's new LAC implementation,
1025 described above, eliminates this problem and the need for
1026 canonical LR. However, LAC is still experimental and is disabled
1029 ** Java skeleton fixes:
1031 *** A location handling bug has been fixed.
1033 *** The top element of each of the value stack and location stack is now
1034 cleared when popped so that it can be garbage collected.
1036 *** Parser traces now print the top element of the stack.
1038 ** -W/--warnings fixes:
1040 *** Bison now properly recognizes the "no-" versions of categories:
1042 For example, given the following command line, Bison now enables all
1043 warnings except warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
1045 bison -Wall,no-yacc gram.y
1047 *** Bison now treats S/R and R/R conflicts like other warnings:
1049 Previously, conflict reports were independent of Bison's normal
1050 warning system. Now, Bison recognizes the warning categories
1051 "conflicts-sr" and "conflicts-rr". This change has important
1052 consequences for the -W and --warnings command-line options. For
1055 bison -Wno-conflicts-sr gram.y # S/R conflicts not reported
1056 bison -Wno-conflicts-rr gram.y # R/R conflicts not reported
1057 bison -Wnone gram.y # no conflicts are reported
1058 bison -Werror gram.y # any conflict is an error
1060 However, as before, if the %expect or %expect-rr directive is
1061 specified, an unexpected number of conflicts is an error, and an
1062 expected number of conflicts is not reported, so -W and --warning
1063 then have no effect on the conflict report.
1065 *** The "none" category no longer disables a preceding "error":
1067 For example, for the following command line, Bison now reports
1068 errors instead of warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
1070 bison -Werror,none,yacc gram.y
1072 *** The "none" category now disables all Bison warnings:
1074 Previously, the "none" category disabled only Bison warnings for
1075 which there existed a specific -W/--warning category. However,
1076 given the following command line, Bison is now guaranteed to
1077 suppress all warnings:
1081 ** Precedence directives can now assign token number 0:
1083 Since Bison 2.3b, which restored the ability of precedence
1084 directives to assign token numbers, doing so for token number 0 has
1085 produced an assertion failure. For example:
1089 This bug has been fixed.
1091 * Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
1093 ** Bison now obeys -Werror and --warnings=error for warnings about
1094 grammar rules that are useless in the parser due to conflicts.
1096 ** Problems with spawning M4 on at least FreeBSD 8 and FreeBSD 9 have
1099 ** Failures in the test suite for GCC 4.5 have been fixed.
1101 ** Failures in the test suite for some versions of Sun Studio C++ have
1104 ** Contrary to Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, it has been decided that
1105 warnings about undefined %prec identifiers will not be converted to
1106 errors in Bison 2.5. They will remain warnings, which should be
1107 sufficient for POSIX while avoiding backward compatibility issues.
1109 ** Minor documentation fixes.
1111 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (2010-03-20):
1113 ** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks
1114 in the test suite on some versions of at least Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
1115 RHEL4, and Tru64 have been addressed. As a result, fatal Bison
1116 errors should no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
1119 ** "%prec IDENTIFIER" requires IDENTIFIER to be defined separately.
1121 POSIX specifies that an error be reported for any identifier that does
1122 not appear on the LHS of a grammar rule and that is not defined by
1123 %token, %left, %right, or %nonassoc. Bison 2.3b and later lost this
1124 error report for the case when an identifier appears only after a
1125 %prec directive. It is now restored. However, for backward
1126 compatibility with recent Bison releases, it is only a warning for
1127 now. In Bison 2.5 and later, it will return to being an error.
1128 [Between the 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 releases, it was decided that this
1129 warning will not be converted to an error in Bison 2.5.]
1131 ** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.
1133 ** Warnings from gcc's -Wundef option about undefined YYENABLE_NLS,
1134 YYLTYPE_IS_TRIVIAL, and __STRICT_ANSI__ in C/C++ parsers are now
1137 ** %code is now a permanent feature.
1139 A traditional Yacc prologue directive is written in the form:
1143 To provide a more flexible alternative, Bison 2.3b introduced the
1144 %code directive with the following forms for C/C++:
1147 %code requires {CODE}
1148 %code provides {CODE}
1151 These forms are now considered permanent features of Bison. See the
1152 %code entries in the section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
1153 manual for a summary of their functionality. See the section
1154 "Prologue Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the
1155 advantages of %code over the traditional Yacc prologue directive.
1157 Bison's Java feature as a whole including its current usage of %code
1158 is still considered experimental.
1160 ** YYFAIL is deprecated and will eventually be removed.
1162 YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
1163 deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. Previously, it was
1164 documented for Bison's experimental Java parsers. YYFAIL is no longer
1165 documented for Java parsers and is formally deprecated in both cases.
1166 Users are strongly encouraged to migrate to YYERROR, which is
1169 Like YYERROR, you can invoke YYFAIL from a semantic action in order to
1170 induce a syntax error. The most obvious difference from YYERROR is
1171 that YYFAIL will automatically invoke yyerror to report the syntax
1172 error so that you don't have to. However, there are several other
1173 subtle differences between YYERROR and YYFAIL, and YYFAIL suffers from
1174 inherent flaws when %error-verbose or "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE" is
1175 used. For a more detailed discussion, see:
1177 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-12/msg00024.html
1179 The upcoming Bison 2.5 will remove YYFAIL from Java parsers, but
1180 deterministic parsers in C will continue to implement it. However,
1181 because YYFAIL is already flawed, it seems futile to try to make new
1182 Bison features compatible with it. Thus, during parser generation,
1183 Bison 2.5 will produce a warning whenever it discovers YYFAIL in a
1184 rule action. In a later release, YYFAIL will be disabled for
1185 %error-verbose and "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE". Eventually, YYFAIL will
1186 be removed altogether.
1188 There exists at least one case where Bison 2.5's YYFAIL warning will
1189 be a false positive. Some projects add phony uses of YYFAIL and other
1190 Bison-defined macros for the sole purpose of suppressing C
1191 preprocessor warnings (from GCC cpp's -Wunused-macros, for example).
1192 To avoid Bison's future warning, such YYFAIL uses can be moved to the
1193 epilogue (that is, after the second "%%") in the Bison input file. In
1194 this release (2.4.2), Bison already generates its own code to suppress
1195 C preprocessor warnings for YYFAIL, so projects can remove their own
1196 phony uses of YYFAIL if compatibility with Bison releases prior to
1197 2.4.2 is not necessary.
1199 ** Internationalization.
1201 Fix a regression introduced in Bison 2.4: Under some circumstances,
1202 message translations were not installed although supported by the
1205 * Changes in version 2.4.1 (2008-12-11):
1207 ** In the GLR defines file, unexpanded M4 macros in the yylval and yylloc
1208 declarations have been fixed.
1210 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
1212 Bison used to prepend a trailing semicolon at the end of the user
1213 action for reductions. This allowed actions such as
1215 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
1219 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
1221 Some grammars still depend on this "feature". Bison 2.4.1 restores
1222 the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when
1223 neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options
1224 are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old
1225 behavior to be adjusted. Future releases of Bison will disable this
1228 ** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.
1230 * Changes in version 2.4 (2008-11-02):
1232 ** %language is an experimental feature.
1234 We first introduced this feature in test release 2.3b as a cleaner
1235 alternative to %skeleton. Since then, we have discussed the possibility of
1236 modifying its effect on Bison's output file names. Thus, in this release,
1237 we consider %language to be an experimental feature that will likely evolve
1240 ** Forward compatibility with GNU M4 has been improved.
1242 ** Several bugs in the C++ skeleton and the experimental Java skeleton have been
1245 * Changes in version 2.3b (2008-05-27):
1247 ** The quotes around NAME that used to be required in the following directive
1250 %define NAME "VALUE"
1252 ** The directive "%pure-parser" is now deprecated in favor of:
1256 which has the same effect except that Bison is more careful to warn about
1257 unreasonable usage in the latter case.
1261 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in C with a push interface. That
1262 is, instead of invoking "yyparse", which pulls tokens from "yylex", you can
1263 push one token at a time to the parser using "yypush_parse", which will
1264 return to the caller after processing each token. By default, the push
1265 interface is disabled. Either of the following directives will enable it:
1267 %define api.push_pull "push" // Just push; does not require yylex.
1268 %define api.push_pull "both" // Push and pull; requires yylex.
1270 See the new section "A Push Parser" in the Bison manual for details.
1272 The current push parsing interface is experimental and may evolve. More user
1273 feedback will help to stabilize it.
1275 ** The -g and --graph options now output graphs in Graphviz DOT format,
1276 not VCG format. Like --graph, -g now also takes an optional FILE argument
1277 and thus cannot be bundled with other short options.
1281 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in Java. The skeleton is
1282 "data/lalr1.java". Consider using the new %language directive instead of
1283 %skeleton to select it.
1285 See the new section "Java Parsers" in the Bison manual for details.
1287 The current Java interface is experimental and may evolve. More user
1288 feedback will help to stabilize it.
1289 Contributed by Paolo Bonzini.
1293 This new directive specifies the programming language of the generated
1294 parser, which can be C (the default), C++, or Java. Besides the skeleton
1295 that Bison uses, the directive affects the names of the generated files if
1296 the grammar file's name ends in ".y".
1298 ** XML Automaton Report
1300 Bison can now generate an XML report of the LALR(1) automaton using the new
1301 "--xml" option. The current XML schema is experimental and may evolve. More
1302 user feedback will help to stabilize it.
1303 Contributed by Wojciech Polak.
1305 ** The grammar file may now specify the name of the parser header file using
1306 %defines. For example:
1310 ** When reporting useless rules, useless nonterminals, and unused terminals,
1311 Bison now employs the terms "useless in grammar" instead of "useless",
1312 "useless in parser" instead of "never reduced", and "unused in grammar"
1313 instead of "unused".
1315 ** Unreachable State Removal
1317 Previously, Bison sometimes generated parser tables containing unreachable
1318 states. A state can become unreachable during conflict resolution if Bison
1319 disables a shift action leading to it from a predecessor state. Bison now:
1321 1. Removes unreachable states.
1323 2. Does not report any conflicts that appeared in unreachable states.
1324 WARNING: As a result, you may need to update %expect and %expect-rr
1325 directives in existing grammar files.
1327 3. For any rule used only in such states, Bison now reports the rule as
1328 "useless in parser due to conflicts".
1330 This feature can be disabled with the following directive:
1332 %define lr.keep_unreachable_states
1334 See the %define entry in the "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison manual
1335 for further discussion.
1337 ** Lookahead Set Correction in the ".output" Report
1339 When instructed to generate a ".output" file including lookahead sets
1340 (using "--report=lookahead", for example), Bison now prints each reduction's
1341 lookahead set only next to the associated state's one item that (1) is
1342 associated with the same rule as the reduction and (2) has its dot at the end
1343 of its RHS. Previously, Bison also erroneously printed the lookahead set
1344 next to all of the state's other items associated with the same rule. This
1345 bug affected only the ".output" file and not the generated parser source
1348 ** --report-file=FILE is a new option to override the default ".output" file
1351 ** The "=" that used to be required in the following directives is now
1354 %file-prefix "parser"
1358 ** An Alternative to "%{...%}" -- "%code QUALIFIER {CODE}"
1360 Bison 2.3a provided a new set of directives as a more flexible alternative to
1361 the traditional Yacc prologue blocks. Those have now been consolidated into
1362 a single %code directive with an optional qualifier field, which identifies
1363 the purpose of the code and thus the location(s) where Bison should generate
1366 1. "%code {CODE}" replaces "%after-header {CODE}"
1367 2. "%code requires {CODE}" replaces "%start-header {CODE}"
1368 3. "%code provides {CODE}" replaces "%end-header {CODE}"
1369 4. "%code top {CODE}" replaces "%before-header {CODE}"
1371 See the %code entries in section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
1372 manual for a summary of the new functionality. See the new section "Prologue
1373 Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the advantages of %code
1374 over the traditional Yacc prologues.
1376 The prologue alternatives are experimental. More user feedback will help to
1377 determine whether they should become permanent features.
1379 ** Revised warning: unset or unused mid-rule values
1381 Since Bison 2.2, Bison has warned about mid-rule values that are set but not
1382 used within any of the actions of the parent rule. For example, Bison warns
1385 exp: '1' { $$ = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $1 + $4; };
1387 Now, Bison also warns about mid-rule values that are used but not set. For
1388 example, Bison warns about unset $$ in the mid-rule action in:
1390 exp: '1' { $1 = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $2 + $4; };
1392 However, Bison now disables both of these warnings by default since they
1393 sometimes prove to be false alarms in existing grammars employing the Yacc
1394 constructs $0 or $-N (where N is some positive integer).
1396 To enable these warnings, specify the option "--warnings=midrule-values" or
1397 "-W", which is a synonym for "--warnings=all".
1399 ** Default %destructor or %printer with "<*>" or "<>"
1401 Bison now recognizes two separate kinds of default %destructor's and
1404 1. Place "<*>" in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
1405 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols for which you have formally
1406 declared semantic type tags.
1408 2. Place "<>" in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
1409 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols without declared semantic
1412 Bison no longer supports the "%symbol-default" notation from Bison 2.3a.
1413 "<*>" and "<>" combined achieve the same effect with one exception: Bison no
1414 longer applies any %destructor to a mid-rule value if that mid-rule value is
1415 not actually ever referenced using either $$ or $n in a semantic action.
1417 The default %destructor's and %printer's are experimental. More user
1418 feedback will help to determine whether they should become permanent
1421 See the section "Freeing Discarded Symbols" in the Bison manual for further
1424 ** %left, %right, and %nonassoc can now declare token numbers. This is required
1425 by POSIX. However, see the end of section "Operator Precedence" in the Bison
1426 manual for a caveat concerning the treatment of literal strings.
1428 ** The nonfunctional --no-parser, -n, and %no-parser options have been
1429 completely removed from Bison.
1431 * Changes in version 2.3a, 2006-09-13:
1433 ** Instead of %union, you can define and use your own union type
1434 YYSTYPE if your grammar contains at least one <type> tag.
1435 Your YYSTYPE need not be a macro; it can be a typedef.
1436 This change is for compatibility with other Yacc implementations,
1437 and is required by POSIX.
1439 ** Locations columns and lines start at 1.
1440 In accordance with the GNU Coding Standards and Emacs.
1442 ** You may now declare per-type and default %destructor's and %printer's:
1446 %union { char *string; }
1447 %token <string> STRING1
1448 %token <string> STRING2
1449 %type <string> string1
1450 %type <string> string2
1451 %union { char character; }
1452 %token <character> CHR
1453 %type <character> chr
1454 %destructor { free ($$); } %symbol-default
1455 %destructor { free ($$); printf ("%d", @$.first_line); } STRING1 string1
1456 %destructor { } <character>
1458 guarantees that, when the parser discards any user-defined symbol that has a
1459 semantic type tag other than "<character>", it passes its semantic value to
1460 "free". However, when the parser discards a "STRING1" or a "string1", it
1461 also prints its line number to "stdout". It performs only the second
1462 "%destructor" in this case, so it invokes "free" only once.
1464 [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the default
1465 %destructor's and %printer's were experimental, and they were rewritten in
1468 ** Except for LALR(1) parsers in C with POSIX Yacc emulation enabled (with "-y",
1469 "--yacc", or "%yacc"), Bison no longer generates #define statements for
1470 associating token numbers with token names. Removing the #define statements
1471 helps to sanitize the global namespace during preprocessing, but POSIX Yacc
1472 requires them. Bison still generates an enum for token names in all cases.
1474 ** Handling of traditional Yacc prologue blocks is now more consistent but
1475 potentially incompatible with previous releases of Bison.
1477 As before, you declare prologue blocks in your grammar file with the
1478 "%{ ... %}" syntax. To generate the pre-prologue, Bison concatenates all
1479 prologue blocks that you've declared before the first %union. To generate
1480 the post-prologue, Bison concatenates all prologue blocks that you've
1481 declared after the first %union.
1483 Previous releases of Bison inserted the pre-prologue into both the header
1484 file and the code file in all cases except for LALR(1) parsers in C. In the
1485 latter case, Bison inserted it only into the code file. For parsers in C++,
1486 the point of insertion was before any token definitions (which associate
1487 token numbers with names). For parsers in C, the point of insertion was
1488 after the token definitions.
1490 Now, Bison never inserts the pre-prologue into the header file. In the code
1491 file, it always inserts it before the token definitions.
1493 ** Bison now provides a more flexible alternative to the traditional Yacc
1494 prologue blocks: %before-header, %start-header, %end-header, and
1497 For example, the following declaration order in the grammar file reflects the
1498 order in which Bison will output these code blocks. However, you are free to
1499 declare these code blocks in your grammar file in whatever order is most
1503 /* Bison treats this block like a pre-prologue block: it inserts it into
1504 * the code file before the contents of the header file. It does *not*
1505 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to put
1506 * #include's that you want at the top of your code file. A common
1507 * example is '#include "system.h"'. */
1510 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
1511 * In both files, the point of insertion is before any Bison-generated
1512 * token, semantic type, location type, and class definitions. This is a
1513 * good place to define %union dependencies, for example. */
1516 /* Unlike the traditional Yacc prologue blocks, the output order for the
1517 * new %*-header blocks is not affected by their declaration position
1518 * relative to any %union in the grammar file. */
1521 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
1522 * In both files, the point of insertion is after the Bison-generated
1523 * definitions. This is a good place to declare or define public
1524 * functions or data structures that depend on the Bison-generated
1528 /* Bison treats this block like a post-prologue block: it inserts it into
1529 * the code file after the contents of the header file. It does *not*
1530 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to declare or
1531 * define internal functions or data structures that depend on the
1532 * Bison-generated definitions. */
1535 If you have multiple occurrences of any one of the above declarations, Bison
1536 will concatenate the contents in declaration order.
1538 [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the prologue
1539 alternatives were experimental, and they were rewritten in future versions.]
1541 ** The option "--report=look-ahead" has been changed to "--report=lookahead".
1542 The old spelling still works, but is not documented and may be removed
1543 in a future release.
1545 * Changes in version 2.3, 2006-06-05:
1547 ** GLR grammars should now use "YYRECOVERING ()" instead of "YYRECOVERING",
1548 for compatibility with LALR(1) grammars.
1550 ** It is now documented that any definition of YYSTYPE or YYLTYPE should
1551 be to a type name that does not contain parentheses or brackets.
1553 * Changes in version 2.2, 2006-05-19:
1555 ** The distribution terms for all Bison-generated parsers now permit
1556 using the parsers in nonfree programs. Previously, this permission
1557 was granted only for Bison-generated LALR(1) parsers in C.
1559 ** %name-prefix changes the namespace name in C++ outputs.
1561 ** The C++ parsers export their token_type.
1563 ** Bison now allows multiple %union declarations, and concatenates
1564 their contents together.
1566 ** New warning: unused values
1567 Right-hand side symbols whose values are not used are reported,
1568 if the symbols have destructors. For instance:
1570 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; }
1574 will trigger a warning about $$ and $5 in the first rule, and $3 in
1575 the second ($1 is copied to $$ by the default rule). This example
1576 most likely contains three errors, and could be rewritten as:
1578 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp
1579 { $$ = $1 ? $3 : $5; free ($1 ? $5 : $3); free ($1); }
1581 { $$ = $1 ? $1 : $3; if ($1) free ($3); }
1584 However, if the original actions were really intended, memory leaks
1585 and all, the warnings can be suppressed by letting Bison believe the
1586 values are used, e.g.:
1588 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; (void) ($$, $5); }
1589 | exp "+" exp { $$ = $1; (void) $3; }
1592 If there are mid-rule actions, the warning is issued if no action
1593 uses it. The following triggers no warning: $1 and $3 are used.
1595 exp: exp { push ($1); } '+' exp { push ($3); sum (); };
1597 The warning is intended to help catching lost values and memory leaks.
1598 If a value is ignored, its associated memory typically is not reclaimed.
1600 ** %destructor vs. YYABORT, YYACCEPT, and YYERROR.
1601 Destructors are now called when user code invokes YYABORT, YYACCEPT,
1602 and YYERROR, for all objects on the stack, other than objects
1603 corresponding to the right-hand side of the current rule.
1605 ** %expect, %expect-rr
1606 Incorrect numbers of expected conflicts are now actual errors,
1607 instead of warnings.
1609 ** GLR, YACC parsers.
1610 The %parse-params are available in the destructors (and the
1611 experimental printers) as per the documentation.
1613 ** Bison now warns if it finds a stray "$" or "@" in an action.
1615 ** %require "VERSION"
1616 This specifies that the grammar file depends on features implemented
1617 in Bison version VERSION or higher.
1619 ** lalr1.cc: The token and value types are now class members.
1620 The tokens were defined as free form enums and cpp macros. YYSTYPE
1621 was defined as a free form union. They are now class members:
1622 tokens are enumerations of the "yy::parser::token" struct, and the
1623 semantic values have the "yy::parser::semantic_type" type.
1625 If you do not want or can update to this scheme, the directive
1626 '%define "global_tokens_and_yystype" "1"' triggers the global
1627 definition of tokens and YYSTYPE. This change is suitable both
1628 for previous releases of Bison, and this one.
1630 If you wish to update, then make sure older version of Bison will
1631 fail using '%require "2.2"'.
1633 ** DJGPP support added.
1635 * Changes in version 2.1, 2005-09-16:
1637 ** The C++ lalr1.cc skeleton supports %lex-param.
1639 ** Bison-generated parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like
1640 "syntax error" into languages other than English. The default
1641 language is still English. For details, please see the new
1642 Internationalization section of the Bison manual. Software
1643 distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file. Thanks to
1644 Bruno Haible for this new feature.
1646 ** Wording in the Bison-generated parsers has been changed slightly to
1647 simplify translation. In particular, the message "memory exhausted"
1648 has replaced "parser stack overflow", as the old message was not
1649 always accurate for modern Bison-generated parsers.
1651 ** Destructors are now called when the parser aborts, for all symbols left
1652 behind on the stack. Also, the start symbol is now destroyed after a
1653 successful parse. In both cases, the behavior was formerly inconsistent.
1655 ** When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated parsers no longer
1656 quote the literal strings associated with tokens. For example, for
1657 a syntax error associated with '%token NUM "number"' they might
1658 print 'syntax error, unexpected number' instead of 'syntax error,
1659 unexpected "number"'.
1661 * Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25:
1663 ** Possibly-incompatible changes
1665 - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
1666 (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
1667 problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection. You can "#define
1668 YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read
1669 the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.
1671 - Error token location.
1672 During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
1673 to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
1674 the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
1675 recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
1677 - Semicolon changes:
1678 . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
1679 . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
1681 - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
1682 string literals. They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
1683 dropped support for them. Better diagnostics are now generated if
1684 forget a closing quote.
1686 - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
1690 - GLR grammars now support locations.
1692 - New directive: %initial-action.
1693 This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
1694 initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
1696 - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
1697 reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.
1699 - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., "%token FOO 0x12d".
1700 This is a GNU extension.
1702 - The option "--report=lookahead" was changed to "--report=look-ahead".
1703 [However, this was changed back after 2.3.]
1705 - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
1707 - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
1708 yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
1712 - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
1713 This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
1714 reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
1715 are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts). However, in future
1716 versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
1717 these violations will become errors again.
1719 - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer
1720 arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
1722 - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
1724 * Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01:
1726 ** The documentation license has been upgraded to version 1.2
1727 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
1729 ** syntax error processing
1731 - In Yacc-style parsers YYLLOC_DEFAULT is now used to compute error
1732 locations too. This fixes bugs in error-location computation.
1735 It is now possible to reclaim the memory associated to symbols
1736 discarded during error recovery. This feature is still experimental.
1739 This new directive is preferred over YYERROR_VERBOSE.
1741 - #defining yyerror to steal internal variables is discouraged.
1742 It is not guaranteed to work forever.
1744 ** POSIX conformance
1746 - Semicolons are once again optional at the end of grammar rules.
1747 This reverts to the behavior of Bison 1.33 and earlier, and improves
1748 compatibility with Yacc.
1750 - "parse error" -> "syntax error"
1751 Bison now uniformly uses the term "syntax error"; formerly, the code
1752 and manual sometimes used the term "parse error" instead. POSIX
1753 requires "syntax error" in diagnostics, and it was thought better to
1756 - The documentation now emphasizes that yylex and yyerror must be
1757 declared before use. C99 requires this.
1759 - Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like UCNs and
1760 backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires.
1762 - File names are properly escaped in C output. E.g., foo\bar.y is
1763 output as "foo\\bar.y".
1765 - Yacc command and library now available
1766 The Bison distribution now installs a "yacc" command, as POSIX requires.
1767 Also, Bison now installs a small library liby.a containing
1768 implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions.
1769 This library is normally not useful, but POSIX requires it.
1771 - Type clashes now generate warnings, not errors.
1773 - If the user does not define YYSTYPE as a macro, Bison now declares it
1774 using typedef instead of defining it as a macro.
1775 For consistency, YYLTYPE is also declared instead of defined.
1777 ** Other compatibility issues
1779 - %union directives can now have a tag before the "{", e.g., the
1780 directive "%union foo {...}" now generates the C code
1781 "typedef union foo { ... } YYSTYPE;"; this is for Yacc compatibility.
1782 The default union tag is "YYSTYPE", for compatibility with Solaris 9 Yacc.
1783 For consistency, YYLTYPE's struct tag is now "YYLTYPE" not "yyltype".
1784 This is for compatibility with both Yacc and Bison 1.35.
1786 - ";" is output before the terminating "}" of an action, for
1787 compatibility with Bison 1.35.
1789 - Bison now uses a Yacc-style format for conflict reports, e.g.,
1790 "conflicts: 2 shift/reduce, 1 reduce/reduce".
1792 - "yystype" and "yyltype" are now obsolescent macros instead of being
1793 typedefs or tags; they are no longer documented and are planned to be
1794 withdrawn in a future release.
1799 Users of Bison have to decide how they handle the portability of the
1802 - "parsing stack overflow..." -> "parser stack overflow"
1803 GLR parsers now report "parser stack overflow" as per the Bison manual.
1805 ** %parse-param and %lex-param
1806 The macros YYPARSE_PARAM and YYLEX_PARAM provide a means to pass
1807 additional context to yyparse and yylex. They suffer from several
1810 - a single argument only can be added,
1811 - their types are weak (void *),
1812 - this context is not passed to ancillary functions such as yyerror,
1813 - only yacc.c parsers support them.
1815 The new %parse-param/%lex-param directives provide a more precise control.
1818 %parse-param {int *nastiness}
1819 %lex-param {int *nastiness}
1820 %parse-param {int *randomness}
1822 results in the following signatures:
1824 int yylex (int *nastiness);
1825 int yyparse (int *nastiness, int *randomness);
1827 or, if both %pure-parser and %locations are used:
1829 int yylex (YYSTYPE *lvalp, YYLTYPE *llocp, int *nastiness);
1830 int yyparse (int *nastiness, int *randomness);
1832 ** Bison now warns if it detects conflicting outputs to the same file,
1833 e.g., it generates a warning for "bison -d -o foo.h foo.y" since
1834 that command outputs both code and header to foo.h.
1836 ** #line in output files
1837 - --no-line works properly.
1839 ** Bison can no longer be built by a K&R C compiler; it requires C89 or
1840 later to be built. This change originally took place a few versions
1841 ago, but nobody noticed until we recently asked someone to try
1842 building Bison with a K&R C compiler.
1844 * Changes in version 1.75, 2002-10-14:
1846 ** Bison should now work on 64-bit hosts.
1848 ** Indonesian translation thanks to Tedi Heriyanto.
1851 Fix spurious parse errors.
1854 Some people redefine yyerror to steal yyparse' private variables.
1855 Reenable this trick until an official feature replaces it.
1858 In agreement with POSIX and with other Yaccs, leaving a default
1859 action is valid when $$ is untyped, and $1 typed:
1863 but the converse remains an error:
1867 ** Values of mid-rule actions
1870 foo: { ... } { $$ = $1; } ...
1872 was incorrectly rejected: $1 is defined in the second mid-rule
1873 action, and is equal to the $$ of the first mid-rule action.
1875 * Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04:
1880 causes Bison to produce a Generalized LR (GLR) parser, capable of handling
1881 almost any context-free grammar, ambiguous or not. The new declarations
1882 %dprec and %merge on grammar rules allow parse-time resolution of
1883 ambiguities. Contributed by Paul Hilfinger.
1885 Unfortunately Bison 1.50 does not work properly on 64-bit hosts
1886 like the Alpha, so please stick to 32-bit hosts for now.
1889 When not in Yacc compatibility mode, when the output file was not
1890 specified, running "bison foo/bar.y" created "foo/bar.c". It
1891 now creates "bar.c".
1894 The undefined token was systematically mapped to 2 which prevented
1895 the use of 2 by the user. This is no longer the case.
1897 ** Unknown token numbers
1898 If yylex returned an out of range value, yyparse could die. This is
1902 According to POSIX, the error token must be 256.
1903 Bison extends this requirement by making it a preference: *if* the
1904 user specified that one of her tokens is numbered 256, then error
1905 will be mapped onto another number.
1907 ** Verbose error messages
1908 They no longer report "..., expecting error or..." for states where
1909 error recovery is possible.
1912 Defaults to "$end" instead of "$".
1914 ** Error recovery now conforms to documentation and to POSIX
1915 When a Bison-generated parser encounters a syntax error, it now pops
1916 the stack until it finds a state that allows shifting the error
1917 token. Formerly, it popped the stack until it found a state that
1918 allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the
1919 error token. The new behavior has long been the documented behavior,
1920 and has long been required by POSIX. For more details, please see
1921 Paul Eggert, "Reductions during Bison error handling" (2002-05-20)
1922 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2002-05/msg00038.html>.
1925 Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.
1928 Larger grammars are now supported (larger token numbers, larger grammar
1929 size (= sum of the LHS and RHS lengths), larger LALR tables).
1930 Formerly, many of these numbers ran afoul of 16-bit limits;
1931 now these limits are 32 bits on most hosts.
1933 ** Explicit initial rule
1934 Bison used to play hacks with the initial rule, which the user does
1935 not write. It is now explicit, and visible in the reports and
1939 Before, Bison reported the useless rules, but, although not used,
1940 included them in the parsers. They are now actually removed.
1942 ** Useless rules, useless nonterminals
1943 They are now reported, as a warning, with their locations.
1945 ** Rules never reduced
1946 Rules that can never be reduced because of conflicts are now
1949 ** Incorrect "Token not used"
1950 On a grammar such as
1952 %token useless useful
1954 exp: '0' %prec useful;
1956 where a token was used to set the precedence of the last rule,
1957 bison reported both "useful" and "useless" as useless tokens.
1959 ** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31
1960 as they caused too many portability hassles.
1962 ** Default locations
1963 By an accident of design, the default computation of @$ was
1964 performed after another default computation was performed: @$ = @1.
1965 The latter is now removed: YYLLOC_DEFAULT is fully responsible of
1966 the computation of @$.
1968 ** Token end-of-file
1969 The token end of file may be specified by the user, in which case,
1970 the user symbol is used in the reports, the graphs, and the verbose
1971 error messages instead of "$end", which remains being the default.
1975 %token MYEOF 0 "end of file"
1978 This old option, which has been broken for ages, is removed.
1981 Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Alexandre Folle de Menezes.
1982 Croatian, thanks to Denis Lackovic.
1984 ** Incorrect token definitions
1987 bison used to output
1990 ** Token definitions as enums
1991 Tokens are output both as the traditional #define's, and, provided
1992 the compiler supports ANSI C or is a C++ compiler, as enums.
1993 This lets debuggers display names instead of integers.
1996 In addition to --verbose, bison supports --report=THINGS, which
1997 produces additional information:
1999 complete the core item sets with their closure
2000 - lookahead [changed to "look-ahead" in 1.875e through 2.3, but changed back]
2001 explicitly associate lookahead tokens to items
2003 describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
2004 Bison used to systematically output this information on top of
2005 the report. Solved conflicts are now attached to their states.
2008 Previous versions don't complain when there is a type clash on
2009 the default action if the rule has a mid-rule action, such as in:
2017 ** GNU M4 is now required when using Bison.
2019 * Changes in version 1.35, 2002-03-25:
2022 Some projects use Bison's C parser with C++ compilers, and define
2023 YYSTYPE as a class. The recent adjustment of C parsers for data
2024 alignment and 64 bit architectures made this impossible.
2026 Because for the time being no real solution for C++ parser
2027 generation exists, kludges were implemented in the parser to
2028 maintain this use. In the future, when Bison has C++ parsers, this
2029 kludge will be disabled.
2031 This kludge also addresses some C++ problems when the stack was
2034 * Changes in version 1.34, 2002-03-12:
2036 ** File name clashes are detected
2037 $ bison foo.y -d -o foo.x
2038 fatal error: header and parser would both be named "foo.x"
2040 ** A missing ";" at the end of a rule triggers a warning
2041 In accordance with POSIX, and in agreement with other
2042 Yacc implementations, Bison will mandate this semicolon in the near
2043 future. This eases the implementation of a Bison parser of Bison
2044 grammars by making this grammar LALR(1) instead of LR(2). To
2045 facilitate the transition, this release introduces a warning.
2047 ** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31, as they caused too
2048 many portability hassles.
2050 ** DJGPP support added.
2052 ** Fix test suite portability problems.
2054 * Changes in version 1.33, 2002-02-07:
2057 Groff could not be compiled for the definition of size_t was lacking
2058 under some conditions.
2063 * Changes in version 1.32, 2002-01-23:
2065 ** Fix Yacc output file names
2067 ** Portability fixes
2069 ** Italian, Dutch translations
2071 * Changes in version 1.31, 2002-01-14:
2075 ** GNU Gettext and %expect
2076 GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
2077 Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
2078 too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
2079 does not trigger an error when the input file is named "plural.y".
2081 ** Use of alloca in parsers
2082 If YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA is defined to 0, then the parsers will use
2083 malloc exclusively. Since 1.29, but was not NEWS'ed.
2085 alloca is used only when compiled with GCC, to avoid portability
2088 ** yyparse now returns 2 if memory is exhausted; formerly it dumped core.
2090 ** When the generated parser lacks debugging code, YYDEBUG is now 0
2091 (as POSIX requires) instead of being undefined.
2094 Bison has always permitted actions such as { $$ = $1 }: it adds the
2095 ending semicolon. Now if in Yacc compatibility mode, the semicolon
2096 is no longer output: one has to write { $$ = $1; }.
2098 ** Better C++ compliance
2099 The output parsers try to respect C++ namespaces.
2100 [This turned out to be a failed experiment, and it was reverted later.]
2103 Fixed bugs when reporting useless nonterminals.
2106 The parsers work properly on 64 bit hosts.
2109 Some calls to strerror resulted in scrambled or missing error messages.
2112 When the number of shift/reduce conflicts is correct, don't issue
2115 ** The verbose report includes the rule line numbers.
2117 ** Rule line numbers are fixed in traces.
2119 ** Swedish translation
2122 Verbose parse error messages from the parsers are better looking.
2123 Before: parse error: unexpected `'/'', expecting `"number"' or `'-'' or `'(''
2124 Now: parse error: unexpected '/', expecting "number" or '-' or '('
2126 ** Fixed parser memory leaks.
2127 When the generated parser was using malloc to extend its stacks, the
2128 previous allocations were not freed.
2130 ** Fixed verbose output file.
2131 Some newlines were missing.
2132 Some conflicts in state descriptions were missing.
2134 ** Fixed conflict report.
2135 Option -v was needed to get the result.
2139 Mismatches are errors, not warnings.
2141 ** Fixed incorrect processing of some invalid input.
2143 ** Fixed CPP guards: 9foo.h uses BISON_9FOO_H instead of 9FOO_H.
2145 ** Fixed some typos in the documentation.
2147 ** %token MY_EOF 0 is supported.
2148 Before, MY_EOF was silently renumbered as 257.
2150 ** doc/refcard.tex is updated.
2152 ** %output, %file-prefix, %name-prefix.
2156 New, aliasing "--output-file".
2158 * Changes in version 1.30, 2001-10-26:
2160 ** "--defines" and "--graph" have now an optional argument which is the
2161 output file name. "-d" and "-g" do not change; they do not take any
2164 ** "%source_extension" and "%header_extension" are removed, failed
2167 ** Portability fixes.
2169 * Changes in version 1.29, 2001-09-07:
2171 ** The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used
2172 with common autoconfiguration schemes. If you still use ancient compilers
2173 that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option
2174 "-Dconst=". Autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this.
2176 ** Added "-g" and "--graph".
2178 ** The Bison manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
2180 ** The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension.
2182 ** Russian translation added.
2184 ** NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
2186 ** Added the old Bison reference card.
2188 ** Added "--locations" and "%locations".
2190 ** Added "-S" and "--skeleton".
2192 ** "%raw", "-r", "--raw" is disabled.
2194 ** Special characters are escaped when output. This solves the problems
2195 of the #line lines with path names including backslashes.
2198 "%yacc", "%fixed_output_files", "%defines", "%no_parser", "%verbose",
2199 "%debug", "%source_extension" and "%header_extension".
2202 Automatic location tracking.
2204 * Changes in version 1.28, 1999-07-06:
2206 ** Should compile better now with K&R compilers.
2210 ** Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character.
2212 ** There is now a FAQ.
2214 * Changes in version 1.27:
2216 ** The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on
2217 some systems has been fixed.
2219 * Changes in version 1.26:
2221 ** Bison now uses Automake.
2223 ** New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>.
2225 ** Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258.
2227 ** Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable.
2229 ** A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed.
2231 ** Problems when closing files should now be reported.
2233 ** Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do
2234 not provide alloca().
2236 * Changes in version 1.25, 1995-10-16:
2238 ** Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading
2239 the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it.
2241 ** Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for
2242 example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead
2243 of choosing a name like LESSEQ.
2245 ** The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names
2246 and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this
2247 table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other
2250 ** The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor
2251 directives in the parser file.
2253 ** The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not
2254 Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros.
2256 ** The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including
2257 the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine.
2258 The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of
2259 a switch statement body.
2261 * Changes in version 1.23:
2263 The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be
2264 passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should
2265 actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable
2266 by casting it to the proper pointer type.
2268 Line numbers in output file corrected.
2270 * Changes in version 1.22:
2272 --help option added.
2274 * Changes in version 1.20:
2276 Output file does not redefine const for C++.
2280 Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2282 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.
2284 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2285 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
2286 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2287 (at your option) any later version.
2289 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2290 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2291 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2292 GNU General Public License for more details.
2294 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
2295 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
2297 LocalWords: yacc YYBACKUP glr GCC lalr ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException nullptr
2298 LocalWords: cplusplus liby rpl fprintf mfcalc Wyacc stmt cond expr mk sym lr
2299 LocalWords: IELR ielr Lookahead YYERROR nonassoc LALR's api lookaheads yychar
2300 LocalWords: destructor lookahead YYRHSLOC YYLLOC Rhs ifndef YYFAIL cpp sr rr
2301 LocalWords: preprocessor initializer Wno Wnone Werror FreeBSD prec livelocks
2302 LocalWords: Solaris AIX UX RHEL Tru LHS gcc's Wundef YYENABLE NLS YYLTYPE VCG
2303 LocalWords: yyerror cpp's Wunused yylval yylloc prepend yyparse yylex yypush
2304 LocalWords: Graphviz xml nonterminals midrule destructor's YYSTYPE typedef ly
2305 LocalWords: CHR chr printf stdout namespace preprocessing enum pre include's
2306 LocalWords: YYRECOVERING nonfree destructors YYABORT YYACCEPT params enums de
2307 LocalWords: struct yystype DJGPP lex param Haible NUM alloca YYSTACK NUL goto
2308 LocalWords: YYMAXDEPTH Unescaped UCNs YYLTYPE's yyltype typedefs inline Yaccs
2309 LocalWords: Heriyanto Reenable dprec Hilfinger Eggert MYEOF Folle Menezes EOF
2310 LocalWords: Lackovic define's itemset Groff Gettext malloc NEWS'ed YYDEBUG YY
2311 LocalWords: namespaces strerror const autoconfiguration Dconst Autoconf's FDL
2312 LocalWords: Automake TMPDIR LESSEQ ylwrap endif yydebug YYTOKEN YYLSP ival hh
2313 LocalWords: extern YYTOKENTYPE TOKENTYPE yytokentype tokentype STYPE lval pdf
2314 LocalWords: lang yyoutput dvi html ps POSIX lvalp llocp Wother nterm arg init
2315 LocalWords: TOK calc yyo fval Wconflicts