3 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
5 ** Incompatible changes
9 Support for YYFAIL is removed (deprecated in Bison 2.4.2).
10 Support for yystype and yyltype (instead of YYSTYPE and YYLTYPE)
11 is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875).
12 Support for YYPARSE_PARAM is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875).
16 *** Enhancements of the -Werror option
18 The -Werror=CATEGORY option is now recognized, and will treat specified
19 warnings as errors. The warnings need not have been explicitly activated
20 using the -W option, this is similar to what GCC 4.7 does.
22 For example, given the following command line, Bison will treat both
23 warnings related to POSIX Yacc incompatibilities and S/R conflicts as
24 errors (and only those):
26 $ bison -Werror=yacc,error=conflicts-sr input.y
28 If no categories are specified, -Werror will make all active warnings into
29 errors. For example, the following line does the same the previous example:
31 $ bison -Werror -Wnone -Wyacc -Wconflicts-sr input.y
33 (By default -Wconflicts-sr,conflicts-rr,deprecated,other is enabled.)
35 Note that the categories in this -Werror option may not be prefixed with
36 "no-". However, -Wno-error[=CATEGORY] is valid.
38 Note that -y enables -Werror=yacc. Therefore it is now possible to require
39 Yacc-like behavior (e.g., always generate y.tab.c), but to report
40 incompatibilities as warnings: "-y -Wno-error=yacc".
42 *** The display of warnings is now richer
44 The option that controls a given warning is now displayed:
46 foo.y:4.6: warning: type clash on default action: <foo> != <bar> [-Wother]
48 In the case of warnings treated as errors, the prefix is changed from
49 "warning: " to "error: ", and the suffix is displayed, in a manner similar
50 to GCC, as [-Werror=CATEGORY].
52 For instance, where the previous version of Bison would report (and exit
55 bison: warnings being treated as errors
56 input.y:1.1: warning: stray ',' treated as white space
60 input.y:1.1: error: stray ',' treated as white space [-Werror=other]
62 *** Deprecated constructs
64 The new 'deprecated' warning category flags obsolete constructs whose
65 support will be discontinued. It is enabled by default. These warnings
66 used to be reported as 'other' warnings.
68 *** Useless semantic types
70 Bison now warns about useless (uninhabited) semantic types. Since
71 semantic types are not declared to Bison (they are defined in the opaque
72 %union structure), it is %printer/%destructor directives about useless
73 types that trigger the warning:
77 %printer {} <type1> <type3>
78 %destructor {} <type2> <type4>
80 nterm: term { $$ = $1; };
82 3.28-34: warning: type <type3> is used, but is not associated to any symbol
83 4.28-34: warning: type <type4> is used, but is not associated to any symbol
85 *** Undefined but unused symbols
87 Bison used to raise an error for undefined symbols that are not used in
88 the grammar. This is now only a warning.
91 %destructor {} symbol2
96 *** Useless destructors or printers
98 Bison now warns about useless destructors or printers. In the following
99 example, the printer for <type1>, and the destructor for <type2> are
100 useless: all symbols of <type1> (token1) already have a printer, and all
101 symbols of type <type2> (token2) already have a destructor.
103 %token <type1> token1
107 %printer {} token1 <type1> <type3>
108 %destructor {} token2 <type2> <type4>
112 The warnings and error messages about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce
113 conflicts have been normalized. For instance on the following foo.y file:
117 exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0';
119 compare the previous version of bison:
122 foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
123 $ bison -Werror foo.y
124 bison: warnings being treated as errors
125 foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
127 with the new behavior:
130 foo.y: warning: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Wconflicts-sr]
131 foo.y: warning: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Wconflicts-rr]
132 $ bison -Werror foo.y
133 foo.y: error: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Werror=conflicts-sr]
134 foo.y: error: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Werror=conflicts-rr]
136 When %expect or %expect-rr is used, such as with bar.y:
141 exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0';
146 bar.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce
147 bar.y: expected 0 shift/reduce conflicts
148 bar.y: expected 0 reduce/reduce conflicts
153 bar.y: error: shift/reduce conflicts: 1 found, 0 expected
154 bar.y: error: reduce/reduce conflicts: 2 found, 0 expected
156 ** Additional yylex/yyparse arguments
158 The new directive %param declares additional arguments to both yylex and
159 yyparse. The %lex-param, %parse-param, and %param directives support one
160 or more arguments. Instead of
162 %lex-param {arg1_type *arg1}
163 %lex-param {arg2_type *arg2}
164 %parse-param {arg1_type *arg1}
165 %parse-param {arg2_type *arg2}
169 %param {arg1_type *arg1} {arg2_type *arg2}
171 ** Java skeleton improvements
173 The constants for token names were moved to the Lexer interface. Also, it
174 is possible to add code to the parser's constructors using "%code init"
175 and "%define init_throws".
177 ** C++ skeletons improvements
179 *** The parser header is no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
181 Using %defines is now optional. Without it, the needed support classes
182 are defined in the generated parser, instead of additional files (such as
183 location.hh, position.hh and stack.hh).
185 *** Locations are no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
187 Both lalr1.cc and glr.cc no longer require %location.
189 *** syntax_error exception (lalr1.cc)
191 The C++ parser features a syntax_error exception, which can be
192 thrown from the scanner or from user rules to raise syntax errors.
193 This facilitates reporting errors caught in sub-functions (e.g.,
194 rejecting too large integral literals from a conversion function
195 used by the scanner, or rejecting invalid combinations from a
196 factory invoked by the user actions).
198 ** Variable api.token.prefix
200 The variable api.token.prefix changes the way tokens are identified in
201 the generated files. This is especially useful to avoid collisions
202 with identifiers in the target language. For instance
204 %token FILE for ERROR
205 %define api.token.prefix "TOK_"
207 start: FILE for ERROR;
209 will generate the definition of the symbols TOK_FILE, TOK_for, and
210 TOK_ERROR in the generated sources. In particular, the scanner must
211 use these prefixed token names, although the grammar itself still
212 uses the short names (as in the sample rule given above).
214 ** Renamed %define variables
216 The following variables have been renamed for consistency. Backward
217 compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended.
219 lr.default-reductions -> lr.default-reduction
220 lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state
221 namespace -> api.namespace
223 ** Variable parse.error
225 This variable controls the verbosity of error messages. The use of the
226 %error-verbose directive is deprecated in favor of "%define parse.error
229 ** Semantic predicates
231 The new, experimental, semantic-predicate feature allows actions of the
232 form "%?{ BOOLEAN-EXPRESSION }", which cause syntax errors (as for
233 YYERROR) if the expression evaluates to 0, and are evaluated immediately
234 in GLR parsers, rather than being deferred. The result is that they allow
235 the programmer to prune possible parses based on the values of run-time
238 ** The directive %expect-rr is now an error in non GLR mode
240 It used to be an error only if used in non GLR mode, _and_ if there are
241 reduce/reduce conflicts.
243 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.7 (2012-12-12) [stable]
247 Warnings about uninitialized yylloc in yyparse have been fixed.
249 Restored C90 compliance (yet no report was ever made).
251 ** Diagnostics are improved
253 *** Changes in the format of error messages
255 This used to be the format of many error reports:
257 input.y:2.7-12: %type redeclaration for exp
258 input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
262 input.y:2.7-12: error: %type redeclaration for exp
263 input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
265 *** New format for error reports: carets
267 Caret errors have been added to Bison:
269 input.y:2.7-12: error: %type redeclaration for exp
272 input.y:1.7-12: previous declaration
278 input.y:3.20-23: error: ambiguous reference: '$exp'
279 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
281 input.y:3.1-3: refers to: $exp at $$
282 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
284 input.y:3.6-8: refers to: $exp at $1
285 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
287 input.y:3.14-16: refers to: $exp at $3
288 exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
291 The default behaviour for now is still not to display these unless
292 explictly asked with -fcaret (or -fall). However, in a later release, it
293 will be made the default behavior (but may still be deactivated with
296 ** New value for %define variable: api.pure full
298 The %define variable api.pure requests a pure (reentrant) parser. However,
299 for historical reasons, using it in a location-tracking Yacc parser
300 resulted in a yyerror function that did not take a location as a
301 parameter. With this new value, the user may request a better pure parser,
302 where yyerror does take a location as a parameter (in location-tracking
305 The use of "%define api.pure true" is deprecated in favor of this new
306 "%define api.pure full".
308 ** New %define variable: api.location.type (glr.cc, lalr1.cc, lalr1.java)
310 The %define variable api.location.type defines the name of the type to use
311 for locations. When defined, Bison no longer generates the position.hh
312 and location.hh files, nor does the parser will include them: the user is
313 then responsible to define her type.
315 This can be used in programs with several parsers to factor their location
316 and position files: let one of them generate them, and the others just use
319 This feature was actually introduced, but not documented, in Bison 2.5,
320 under the name "location_type" (which is maintained for backward
323 For consistency, lalr1.java's %define variables location_type and
324 position_type are deprecated in favor of api.location.type and
327 ** Exception safety (lalr1.cc)
329 The parse function now catches exceptions, uses the %destructors to
330 release memory (the lookahead symbol and the symbols pushed on the stack)
331 before re-throwing the exception.
333 This feature is somewhat experimental. User feedback would be
336 ** Graph improvements in DOT and XSLT
338 The graphical presentation of the states is more readable: their shape is
339 now rectangular, the state number is clearly displayed, and the items are
340 numbered and left-justified.
342 The reductions are now explicitly represented as transitions to other
343 diamond shaped nodes.
345 These changes are present in both --graph output and xml2dot.xsl XSLT
346 processing, with minor (documented) differences.
348 ** %language is no longer an experimental feature.
350 The introduction of this feature, in 2.4, was four years ago. The
351 --language option and the %language directive are no longer experimental.
355 The sections about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts resolution
356 have been fixed and extended.
358 Although introduced more than four years ago, XML and Graphviz reports
359 were not properly documented.
361 The translation of mid-rule actions is now described.
363 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.5 (2012-11-07) [stable]
365 We consider compiler warnings about Bison generated parsers to be bugs.
366 Rather than working around them in your own project, please consider
367 reporting them to us.
371 Warnings about uninitialized yylval and/or yylloc for push parsers with a
372 pure interface have been fixed for GCC 4.0 up to 4.8, and Clang 2.9 to
375 Other issues in the test suite have been addressed.
377 Nul characters are correctly displayed in error messages.
379 When possible, yylloc is correctly initialized before calling yylex. It
380 is no longer necessary to initialize it in the %initial-action.
382 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.4 (2012-10-23) [stable]
384 Bison 2.6.3's --version was incorrect. This release fixes this issue.
386 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.3 (2012-10-22) [stable]
390 Bugs and portability issues in the test suite have been fixed.
392 Some errors in translations have been addressed, and --help now directs
393 users to the appropriate place to report them.
395 Stray Info files shipped by accident are removed.
397 Incorrect definitions of YY_, issued by yacc.c when no parser header is
398 generated, are removed.
400 All the generated headers are self-contained.
402 ** Header guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
404 In order to avoid collisions, the header guards are now
405 YY_<PREFIX>_<FILE>_INCLUDED, instead of merely <PREFIX>_<FILE>.
406 For instance the header generated from
408 %define api.prefix "calc"
409 %defines "lib/parse.h"
411 will use YY_CALC_LIB_PARSE_H_INCLUDED as guard.
413 ** Fix compiler warnings in the generated parser (yacc.c, glr.c)
415 The compilation of pure parsers (%define api.pure) can trigger GCC
418 input.c: In function 'yyparse':
419 input.c:1503:12: warning: 'yylval' may be used uninitialized in this
420 function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
424 This is now fixed; pragmas to avoid these warnings are no longer needed.
426 Warnings from clang ("equality comparison with extraneous parentheses" and
427 "function declared 'noreturn' should not return") have also been
430 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.2 (2012-08-03) [stable]
434 Buffer overruns, complaints from Flex, and portability issues in the test
435 suite have been fixed.
437 ** Spaces in %lex- and %parse-param (lalr1.cc, glr.cc)
439 Trailing end-of-lines in %parse-param or %lex-param would result in
440 invalid C++. This is fixed.
442 ** Spurious spaces and end-of-lines
444 The generated files no longer end (nor start) with empty lines.
446 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.1 (2012-07-30) [stable]
448 Bison no longer executes user-specified M4 code when processing a grammar.
452 In addition to the removal of the features announced in Bison 2.6, the
453 next major release will remove the "Temporary hack for adding a semicolon
454 to the user action", as announced in the release 2.5. Instead of:
456 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
460 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
464 *** Type names are now properly escaped.
466 *** glr.cc: set_debug_level and debug_level work as expected.
468 *** Stray @ or $ in actions
470 While Bison used to warn about stray $ or @ in action rules, it did not
471 for other actions such as printers, destructors, or initial actions. It
474 ** Type names in actions
476 For consistency with rule actions, it is now possible to qualify $$ by a
477 type-name in destructors, printers, and initial actions. For instance:
479 %printer { fprintf (yyo, "(%d, %f)", $<ival>$, $<fval>$); } <*> <>;
481 will display two values for each typed and untyped symbol (provided
482 that YYSTYPE has both "ival" and "fval" fields).
484 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2012-07-19) [stable]
488 The next major release of Bison will drop support for the following
489 deprecated features. Please report disagreements to bug-bison@gnu.org.
493 Support for generating parsers in K&R C will be removed. Parsers
494 generated for C support ISO C90, and are tested with ISO C99 and ISO C11
497 *** Features deprecated since Bison 1.875
499 The definitions of yystype and yyltype will be removed; use YYSTYPE and
502 YYPARSE_PARAM and YYLEX_PARAM, deprecated in favor of %parse-param and
503 %lex-param, will no longer be supported.
505 Support for the preprocessor symbol YYERROR_VERBOSE will be removed, use
508 *** The generated header will be included (yacc.c)
510 Instead of duplicating the content of the generated header (definition of
511 YYSTYPE, yyparse declaration etc.), the generated parser will include it,
512 as is already the case for GLR or C++ parsers. This change is deferred
513 because existing versions of ylwrap (e.g., Automake 1.12.1) do not support
516 ** Generated Parser Headers
518 *** Guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
520 The generated headers are now guarded, as is already the case for C++
521 parsers (lalr1.cc). For instance, with --defines=foo.h:
526 #endif /* !YY_FOO_H */
528 *** New declarations (yacc.c, glr.c)
530 The generated header now declares yydebug and yyparse. Both honor
531 --name-prefix=bar_, and yield
533 int bar_parse (void);
537 #define yyparse bar_parse
540 in order to facilitate the inclusion of several parser headers inside a
541 single compilation unit.
543 *** Exported symbols in C++
545 The symbols YYTOKEN_TABLE and YYERROR_VERBOSE, which were defined in the
546 header, are removed, as they prevent the possibility of including several
547 generated headers from a single compilation unit.
551 For the same reasons, the undocumented and unused macro YYLSP_NEEDED is no
554 ** New %define variable: api.prefix
556 Now that the generated headers are more complete and properly protected
557 against multiple inclusions, constant names, such as YYSTYPE are a
558 problem. While yyparse and others are properly renamed by %name-prefix,
559 YYSTYPE, YYDEBUG and others have never been affected by it. Because it
560 would introduce backward compatibility issues in projects not expecting
561 YYSTYPE to be renamed, instead of changing the behavior of %name-prefix,
562 it is deprecated in favor of a new %define variable: api.prefix.
564 The following examples compares both:
566 %name-prefix "bar_" | %define api.prefix "bar_"
567 %token <ival> FOO %token <ival> FOO
568 %union { int ival; } %union { int ival; }
574 #ifndef BAR_FOO_H #ifndef BAR_FOO_H
575 # define BAR_FOO_H # define BAR_FOO_H
577 /* Enabling traces. */ /* Enabling traces. */
578 # ifndef YYDEBUG | # ifndef BAR_DEBUG
579 > # if defined YYDEBUG
581 > # define BAR_DEBUG 1
583 > # define BAR_DEBUG 0
586 # define YYDEBUG 0 | # define BAR_DEBUG 0
590 # if YYDEBUG | # if BAR_DEBUG
591 extern int bar_debug; extern int bar_debug;
594 /* Tokens. */ /* Tokens. */
595 # ifndef YYTOKENTYPE | # ifndef BAR_TOKENTYPE
596 # define YYTOKENTYPE | # define BAR_TOKENTYPE
597 enum yytokentype { | enum bar_tokentype {
602 #if ! defined YYSTYPE \ | #if ! defined BAR_STYPE \
603 && ! defined YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED | && ! defined BAR_STYPE_IS_DECLARED
604 typedef union YYSTYPE | typedef union BAR_STYPE
607 } YYSTYPE; | } BAR_STYPE;
608 # define YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED 1 | # define BAR_STYPE_IS_DECLARED 1
611 extern YYSTYPE bar_lval; | extern BAR_STYPE bar_lval;
613 int bar_parse (void); int bar_parse (void);
615 #endif /* !BAR_FOO_H */ #endif /* !BAR_FOO_H */
617 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.1 (2012-06-05) [stable]
621 The next major release will drop support for generating parsers in K&R C.
623 ** yacc.c: YYBACKUP works as expected.
625 ** glr.c improvements:
627 *** Location support is eliminated when not requested:
629 GLR parsers used to include location-related code even when locations were
630 not requested, and therefore not even usable.
632 *** __attribute__ is preserved:
634 __attribute__ is no longer disabled when __STRICT_ANSI__ is defined (i.e.,
635 when -std is passed to GCC).
637 ** lalr1.java: several fixes:
639 The Java parser no longer throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if the
640 first token leads to a syntax error. Some minor clean ups.
644 *** C++11 compatibility:
646 C and C++ parsers use "nullptr" instead of "0" when __cplusplus is 201103L
651 The header files such as "parser.hh", "location.hh", etc. used a constant
652 name for preprocessor guards, for instance:
654 #ifndef BISON_LOCATION_HH
655 # define BISON_LOCATION_HH
657 #endif // !BISON_LOCATION_HH
659 The inclusion guard is now computed from "PREFIX/FILE-NAME", where lower
660 case characters are converted to upper case, and series of
661 non-alphanumerical characters are converted to an underscore.
663 With "bison -o lang++/parser.cc", "location.hh" would now include:
665 #ifndef YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
666 # define YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
668 #endif // !YY_LANG_LOCATION_HH
672 The position and location constructors (and their initialize methods)
673 accept new arguments for line and column. Several issues in the
674 documentation were fixed.
676 ** liby is no longer asking for "rpl_fprintf" on some platforms.
678 ** Changes in the manual:
680 *** %printer is documented
682 The "%printer" directive, supported since at least Bison 1.50, is finally
683 documented. The "mfcalc" example is extended to demonstrate it.
685 For consistency with the C skeletons, the C++ parsers now also support
686 "yyoutput" (as an alias to "debug_stream ()").
688 *** Several improvements have been made:
690 The layout for grammar excerpts was changed to a more compact scheme.
691 Named references are motivated. The description of the automaton
692 description file (*.output) is updated to the current format. Incorrect
693 index entries were fixed. Some other errors were fixed.
697 *** Conflicting prototypes with recent/modified Flex.
699 Fixed build problems with the current, unreleased, version of Flex, and
700 some modified versions of 2.5.35, which have modified function prototypes.
702 *** Warnings during the build procedure have been eliminated.
704 *** Several portability problems in the test suite have been fixed:
706 This includes warnings with some compilers, unexpected behavior of tools
707 such as diff, warning messages from the test suite itself, etc.
709 *** The install-pdf target works properly:
711 Running "make install-pdf" (or -dvi, -html, -info, and -ps) no longer
712 halts in the middle of its course.
714 * Changes in version 2.5 (2011-05-14):
716 ** Grammar symbol names can now contain non-initial dashes:
718 Consistently with directives (such as %error-verbose) and with
719 %define variables (e.g. push-pull), grammar symbol names may contain
720 dashes in any position except the beginning. This is a GNU
721 extension over POSIX Yacc. Thus, use of this extension is reported
722 by -Wyacc and rejected in Yacc mode (--yacc).
726 Historically, Yacc and Bison have supported positional references
727 ($n, $$) to allow access to symbol values from inside of semantic
730 Starting from this version, Bison can also accept named references.
731 When no ambiguity is possible, original symbol names may be used
734 if_stmt : "if" cond_expr "then" then_stmt ';'
735 { $if_stmt = mk_if_stmt($cond_expr, $then_stmt); }
737 In the more common case, explicit names may be declared:
739 stmt[res] : "if" expr[cond] "then" stmt[then] "else" stmt[else] ';'
740 { $res = mk_if_stmt($cond, $then, $else); }
742 Location information is also accessible using @name syntax. When
743 accessing symbol names containing dots or dashes, explicit bracketing
744 ($[sym.1]) must be used.
746 These features are experimental in this version. More user feedback
747 will help to stabilize them.
748 Contributed by Alex Rozenman.
750 ** IELR(1) and canonical LR(1):
752 IELR(1) is a minimal LR(1) parser table generation algorithm. That
753 is, given any context-free grammar, IELR(1) generates parser tables
754 with the full language-recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
755 nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1). This reduction
756 in parser states is often an order of magnitude. More importantly,
757 because canonical LR(1)'s extra parser states may contain duplicate
758 conflicts in the case of non-LR(1) grammars, the number of conflicts
759 for IELR(1) is often an order of magnitude less as well. This can
760 significantly reduce the complexity of developing of a grammar.
762 Bison can now generate IELR(1) and canonical LR(1) parser tables in
763 place of its traditional LALR(1) parser tables, which remain the
764 default. You can specify the type of parser tables in the grammar
765 file with these directives:
769 %define lr.type canonical-lr
771 The default-reduction optimization in the parser tables can also be
772 adjusted using "%define lr.default-reductions". For details on both
773 of these features, see the new section "Tuning LR" in the Bison
776 These features are experimental. More user feedback will help to
779 ** LAC (Lookahead Correction) for syntax error handling:
781 Canonical LR, IELR, and LALR can suffer from a couple of problems
782 upon encountering a syntax error. First, the parser might perform
783 additional parser stack reductions before discovering the syntax
784 error. Such reductions can perform user semantic actions that are
785 unexpected because they are based on an invalid token, and they
786 cause error recovery to begin in a different syntactic context than
787 the one in which the invalid token was encountered. Second, when
788 verbose error messages are enabled (with %error-verbose or the
789 obsolete "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE"), the expected token list in the
790 syntax error message can both contain invalid tokens and omit valid
793 The culprits for the above problems are %nonassoc, default
794 reductions in inconsistent states, and parser state merging. Thus,
795 IELR and LALR suffer the most. Canonical LR can suffer only if
796 %nonassoc is used or if default reductions are enabled for
799 LAC is a new mechanism within the parsing algorithm that solves
800 these problems for canonical LR, IELR, and LALR without sacrificing
801 %nonassoc, default reductions, or state merging. When LAC is in
802 use, canonical LR and IELR behave almost exactly the same for both
803 syntactically acceptable and syntactically unacceptable input.
804 While LALR still does not support the full language-recognition
805 power of canonical LR and IELR, LAC at least enables LALR's syntax
806 error handling to correctly reflect LALR's language-recognition
809 Currently, LAC is only supported for deterministic parsers in C.
810 You can enable LAC with the following directive:
812 %define parse.lac full
814 See the new section "LAC" in the Bison manual for additional
815 details including a few caveats.
817 LAC is an experimental feature. More user feedback will help to
820 ** %define improvements:
822 *** Can now be invoked via the command line:
824 Each of these command-line options
827 --define=NAME[=VALUE]
830 --force-define=NAME[=VALUE]
832 is equivalent to this grammar file declaration
834 %define NAME ["VALUE"]
836 except that the manner in which Bison processes multiple definitions
837 for the same NAME differs. Most importantly, -F and --force-define
838 quietly override %define, but -D and --define do not. For further
839 details, see the section "Bison Options" in the Bison manual.
841 *** Variables renamed:
843 The following %define variables
846 lr.keep_unreachable_states
851 lr.keep-unreachable-states
853 The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely
854 for backward compatibility.
856 *** Values no longer need to be quoted in the grammar file:
858 If a %define value is an identifier, it no longer needs to be placed
859 within quotations marks. For example,
861 %define api.push-pull "push"
865 %define api.push-pull push
867 *** Unrecognized variables are now errors not warnings.
869 *** Multiple invocations for any variable is now an error not a warning.
871 ** Unrecognized %code qualifiers are now errors not warnings.
873 ** Character literals not of length one:
875 Previously, Bison quietly converted all character literals to length
876 one. For example, without warning, Bison interpreted the operators in
877 the following grammar to be the same token:
883 Bison now warns when a character literal is not of length one. In
884 some future release, Bison will start reporting an error instead.
886 ** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions:
888 Previously for deterministic parsers in C, if a user semantic action
889 altered yychar, the parser in some cases used the old yychar value to
890 determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax
891 error or upon parser return. This bug has been fixed.
893 ** C++ parsers use YYRHSLOC:
895 Similarly to the C parsers, the C++ parsers now define the YYRHSLOC
896 macro and use it in the default YYLLOC_DEFAULT. You are encouraged
897 to use it. If, for instance, your location structure has "first"
898 and "last" members, instead of
900 # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \
904 (Current).first = (Rhs)[1].location.first; \
905 (Current).last = (Rhs)[N].location.last; \
909 (Current).first = (Current).last = (Rhs)[0].location.last; \
915 # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \
919 (Current).first = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 1).first; \
920 (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, N).last; \
924 (Current).first = (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 0).last; \
928 ** YYLLOC_DEFAULT in C++:
930 The default implementation of YYLLOC_DEFAULT used to be issued in
931 the header file. It is now output in the implementation file, after
932 the user %code sections so that its #ifndef guard does not try to
933 override the user's YYLLOC_DEFAULT if provided.
935 ** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it:
937 YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
938 deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. More recently, it was
939 a documented feature of Bison's experimental Java parsers. As
940 promised in Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, any appearance of YYFAIL in a
941 semantic action now produces a deprecation warning, and Java parsers
942 no longer implement YYFAIL at all. For further details, including a
943 discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL
944 being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry.
946 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action:
948 Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for
949 reductions when the output language defaulted to C (specifically, when
950 neither %yacc, %language, %skeleton, or equivalent command-line
951 options were specified). This allowed actions such as
953 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
957 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
959 As a first step in removing this misfeature, Bison now issues a
960 warning when it appends a semicolon. Moreover, in cases where Bison
961 cannot easily determine whether a semicolon is needed (for example, an
962 action ending with a cpp directive or a braced compound initializer),
963 it no longer appends one. Thus, the C compiler might now complain
964 about a missing semicolon where it did not before. Future releases of
965 Bison will cease to append semicolons entirely.
967 ** Verbose syntax error message fixes:
969 When %error-verbose or the obsolete "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE" is
970 specified, syntax error messages produced by the generated parser
971 include the unexpected token as well as a list of expected tokens.
972 The effect of %nonassoc on these verbose messages has been corrected
973 in two ways, but a more complete fix requires LAC, described above:
975 *** When %nonassoc is used, there can exist parser states that accept no
976 tokens, and so the parser does not always require a lookahead token
977 in order to detect a syntax error. Because no unexpected token or
978 expected tokens can then be reported, the verbose syntax error
979 message described above is suppressed, and the parser instead
980 reports the simpler message, "syntax error". Previously, this
981 suppression was sometimes erroneously triggered by %nonassoc when a
982 lookahead was actually required. Now verbose messages are
983 suppressed only when all previous lookaheads have already been
984 shifted or discarded.
986 *** Previously, the list of expected tokens erroneously included tokens
987 that would actually induce a syntax error because conflicts for them
988 were resolved with %nonassoc in the current parser state. Such
989 tokens are now properly omitted from the list.
991 *** Expected token lists are still often wrong due to state merging
992 (from LALR or IELR) and default reductions, which can both add
993 invalid tokens and subtract valid tokens. Canonical LR almost
994 completely fixes this problem by eliminating state merging and
995 default reductions. However, there is one minor problem left even
996 when using canonical LR and even after the fixes above. That is,
997 if the resolution of a conflict with %nonassoc appears in a later
998 parser state than the one at which some syntax error is
999 discovered, the conflicted token is still erroneously included in
1000 the expected token list. Bison's new LAC implementation,
1001 described above, eliminates this problem and the need for
1002 canonical LR. However, LAC is still experimental and is disabled
1005 ** Java skeleton fixes:
1007 *** A location handling bug has been fixed.
1009 *** The top element of each of the value stack and location stack is now
1010 cleared when popped so that it can be garbage collected.
1012 *** Parser traces now print the top element of the stack.
1014 ** -W/--warnings fixes:
1016 *** Bison now properly recognizes the "no-" versions of categories:
1018 For example, given the following command line, Bison now enables all
1019 warnings except warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
1021 bison -Wall,no-yacc gram.y
1023 *** Bison now treats S/R and R/R conflicts like other warnings:
1025 Previously, conflict reports were independent of Bison's normal
1026 warning system. Now, Bison recognizes the warning categories
1027 "conflicts-sr" and "conflicts-rr". This change has important
1028 consequences for the -W and --warnings command-line options. For
1031 bison -Wno-conflicts-sr gram.y # S/R conflicts not reported
1032 bison -Wno-conflicts-rr gram.y # R/R conflicts not reported
1033 bison -Wnone gram.y # no conflicts are reported
1034 bison -Werror gram.y # any conflict is an error
1036 However, as before, if the %expect or %expect-rr directive is
1037 specified, an unexpected number of conflicts is an error, and an
1038 expected number of conflicts is not reported, so -W and --warning
1039 then have no effect on the conflict report.
1041 *** The "none" category no longer disables a preceding "error":
1043 For example, for the following command line, Bison now reports
1044 errors instead of warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc:
1046 bison -Werror,none,yacc gram.y
1048 *** The "none" category now disables all Bison warnings:
1050 Previously, the "none" category disabled only Bison warnings for
1051 which there existed a specific -W/--warning category. However,
1052 given the following command line, Bison is now guaranteed to
1053 suppress all warnings:
1057 ** Precedence directives can now assign token number 0:
1059 Since Bison 2.3b, which restored the ability of precedence
1060 directives to assign token numbers, doing so for token number 0 has
1061 produced an assertion failure. For example:
1065 This bug has been fixed.
1067 * Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
1069 ** Bison now obeys -Werror and --warnings=error for warnings about
1070 grammar rules that are useless in the parser due to conflicts.
1072 ** Problems with spawning M4 on at least FreeBSD 8 and FreeBSD 9 have
1075 ** Failures in the test suite for GCC 4.5 have been fixed.
1077 ** Failures in the test suite for some versions of Sun Studio C++ have
1080 ** Contrary to Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, it has been decided that
1081 warnings about undefined %prec identifiers will not be converted to
1082 errors in Bison 2.5. They will remain warnings, which should be
1083 sufficient for POSIX while avoiding backward compatibility issues.
1085 ** Minor documentation fixes.
1087 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (2010-03-20):
1089 ** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks
1090 in the test suite on some versions of at least Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
1091 RHEL4, and Tru64 have been addressed. As a result, fatal Bison
1092 errors should no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
1095 ** "%prec IDENTIFIER" requires IDENTIFIER to be defined separately.
1097 POSIX specifies that an error be reported for any identifier that does
1098 not appear on the LHS of a grammar rule and that is not defined by
1099 %token, %left, %right, or %nonassoc. Bison 2.3b and later lost this
1100 error report for the case when an identifier appears only after a
1101 %prec directive. It is now restored. However, for backward
1102 compatibility with recent Bison releases, it is only a warning for
1103 now. In Bison 2.5 and later, it will return to being an error.
1104 [Between the 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 releases, it was decided that this
1105 warning will not be converted to an error in Bison 2.5.]
1107 ** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.
1109 ** Warnings from gcc's -Wundef option about undefined YYENABLE_NLS,
1110 YYLTYPE_IS_TRIVIAL, and __STRICT_ANSI__ in C/C++ parsers are now
1113 ** %code is now a permanent feature.
1115 A traditional Yacc prologue directive is written in the form:
1119 To provide a more flexible alternative, Bison 2.3b introduced the
1120 %code directive with the following forms for C/C++:
1123 %code requires {CODE}
1124 %code provides {CODE}
1127 These forms are now considered permanent features of Bison. See the
1128 %code entries in the section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
1129 manual for a summary of their functionality. See the section
1130 "Prologue Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the
1131 advantages of %code over the traditional Yacc prologue directive.
1133 Bison's Java feature as a whole including its current usage of %code
1134 is still considered experimental.
1136 ** YYFAIL is deprecated and will eventually be removed.
1138 YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
1139 deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. Previously, it was
1140 documented for Bison's experimental Java parsers. YYFAIL is no longer
1141 documented for Java parsers and is formally deprecated in both cases.
1142 Users are strongly encouraged to migrate to YYERROR, which is
1145 Like YYERROR, you can invoke YYFAIL from a semantic action in order to
1146 induce a syntax error. The most obvious difference from YYERROR is
1147 that YYFAIL will automatically invoke yyerror to report the syntax
1148 error so that you don't have to. However, there are several other
1149 subtle differences between YYERROR and YYFAIL, and YYFAIL suffers from
1150 inherent flaws when %error-verbose or "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE" is
1151 used. For a more detailed discussion, see:
1153 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-12/msg00024.html
1155 The upcoming Bison 2.5 will remove YYFAIL from Java parsers, but
1156 deterministic parsers in C will continue to implement it. However,
1157 because YYFAIL is already flawed, it seems futile to try to make new
1158 Bison features compatible with it. Thus, during parser generation,
1159 Bison 2.5 will produce a warning whenever it discovers YYFAIL in a
1160 rule action. In a later release, YYFAIL will be disabled for
1161 %error-verbose and "#define YYERROR_VERBOSE". Eventually, YYFAIL will
1162 be removed altogether.
1164 There exists at least one case where Bison 2.5's YYFAIL warning will
1165 be a false positive. Some projects add phony uses of YYFAIL and other
1166 Bison-defined macros for the sole purpose of suppressing C
1167 preprocessor warnings (from GCC cpp's -Wunused-macros, for example).
1168 To avoid Bison's future warning, such YYFAIL uses can be moved to the
1169 epilogue (that is, after the second "%%") in the Bison input file. In
1170 this release (2.4.2), Bison already generates its own code to suppress
1171 C preprocessor warnings for YYFAIL, so projects can remove their own
1172 phony uses of YYFAIL if compatibility with Bison releases prior to
1173 2.4.2 is not necessary.
1175 ** Internationalization.
1177 Fix a regression introduced in Bison 2.4: Under some circumstances,
1178 message translations were not installed although supported by the
1181 * Changes in version 2.4.1 (2008-12-11):
1183 ** In the GLR defines file, unexpanded M4 macros in the yylval and yylloc
1184 declarations have been fixed.
1186 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
1188 Bison used to prepend a trailing semicolon at the end of the user
1189 action for reductions. This allowed actions such as
1191 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3 };
1195 exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
1197 Some grammars still depend on this "feature". Bison 2.4.1 restores
1198 the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when
1199 neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options
1200 are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old
1201 behavior to be adjusted. Future releases of Bison will disable this
1204 ** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.
1206 * Changes in version 2.4 (2008-11-02):
1208 ** %language is an experimental feature.
1210 We first introduced this feature in test release 2.3b as a cleaner
1211 alternative to %skeleton. Since then, we have discussed the possibility of
1212 modifying its effect on Bison's output file names. Thus, in this release,
1213 we consider %language to be an experimental feature that will likely evolve
1216 ** Forward compatibility with GNU M4 has been improved.
1218 ** Several bugs in the C++ skeleton and the experimental Java skeleton have been
1221 * Changes in version 2.3b (2008-05-27):
1223 ** The quotes around NAME that used to be required in the following directive
1226 %define NAME "VALUE"
1228 ** The directive "%pure-parser" is now deprecated in favor of:
1232 which has the same effect except that Bison is more careful to warn about
1233 unreasonable usage in the latter case.
1237 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in C with a push interface. That
1238 is, instead of invoking "yyparse", which pulls tokens from "yylex", you can
1239 push one token at a time to the parser using "yypush_parse", which will
1240 return to the caller after processing each token. By default, the push
1241 interface is disabled. Either of the following directives will enable it:
1243 %define api.push_pull "push" // Just push; does not require yylex.
1244 %define api.push_pull "both" // Push and pull; requires yylex.
1246 See the new section "A Push Parser" in the Bison manual for details.
1248 The current push parsing interface is experimental and may evolve. More user
1249 feedback will help to stabilize it.
1251 ** The -g and --graph options now output graphs in Graphviz DOT format,
1252 not VCG format. Like --graph, -g now also takes an optional FILE argument
1253 and thus cannot be bundled with other short options.
1257 Bison can now generate an LALR(1) parser in Java. The skeleton is
1258 "data/lalr1.java". Consider using the new %language directive instead of
1259 %skeleton to select it.
1261 See the new section "Java Parsers" in the Bison manual for details.
1263 The current Java interface is experimental and may evolve. More user
1264 feedback will help to stabilize it.
1265 Contributed by Paolo Bonzini.
1269 This new directive specifies the programming language of the generated
1270 parser, which can be C (the default), C++, or Java. Besides the skeleton
1271 that Bison uses, the directive affects the names of the generated files if
1272 the grammar file's name ends in ".y".
1274 ** XML Automaton Report
1276 Bison can now generate an XML report of the LALR(1) automaton using the new
1277 "--xml" option. The current XML schema is experimental and may evolve. More
1278 user feedback will help to stabilize it.
1279 Contributed by Wojciech Polak.
1281 ** The grammar file may now specify the name of the parser header file using
1282 %defines. For example:
1286 ** When reporting useless rules, useless nonterminals, and unused terminals,
1287 Bison now employs the terms "useless in grammar" instead of "useless",
1288 "useless in parser" instead of "never reduced", and "unused in grammar"
1289 instead of "unused".
1291 ** Unreachable State Removal
1293 Previously, Bison sometimes generated parser tables containing unreachable
1294 states. A state can become unreachable during conflict resolution if Bison
1295 disables a shift action leading to it from a predecessor state. Bison now:
1297 1. Removes unreachable states.
1299 2. Does not report any conflicts that appeared in unreachable states.
1300 WARNING: As a result, you may need to update %expect and %expect-rr
1301 directives in existing grammar files.
1303 3. For any rule used only in such states, Bison now reports the rule as
1304 "useless in parser due to conflicts".
1306 This feature can be disabled with the following directive:
1308 %define lr.keep_unreachable_states
1310 See the %define entry in the "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison manual
1311 for further discussion.
1313 ** Lookahead Set Correction in the ".output" Report
1315 When instructed to generate a ".output" file including lookahead sets
1316 (using "--report=lookahead", for example), Bison now prints each reduction's
1317 lookahead set only next to the associated state's one item that (1) is
1318 associated with the same rule as the reduction and (2) has its dot at the end
1319 of its RHS. Previously, Bison also erroneously printed the lookahead set
1320 next to all of the state's other items associated with the same rule. This
1321 bug affected only the ".output" file and not the generated parser source
1324 ** --report-file=FILE is a new option to override the default ".output" file
1327 ** The "=" that used to be required in the following directives is now
1330 %file-prefix "parser"
1334 ** An Alternative to "%{...%}" -- "%code QUALIFIER {CODE}"
1336 Bison 2.3a provided a new set of directives as a more flexible alternative to
1337 the traditional Yacc prologue blocks. Those have now been consolidated into
1338 a single %code directive with an optional qualifier field, which identifies
1339 the purpose of the code and thus the location(s) where Bison should generate
1342 1. "%code {CODE}" replaces "%after-header {CODE}"
1343 2. "%code requires {CODE}" replaces "%start-header {CODE}"
1344 3. "%code provides {CODE}" replaces "%end-header {CODE}"
1345 4. "%code top {CODE}" replaces "%before-header {CODE}"
1347 See the %code entries in section "Bison Declaration Summary" in the Bison
1348 manual for a summary of the new functionality. See the new section "Prologue
1349 Alternatives" for a detailed discussion including the advantages of %code
1350 over the traditional Yacc prologues.
1352 The prologue alternatives are experimental. More user feedback will help to
1353 determine whether they should become permanent features.
1355 ** Revised warning: unset or unused mid-rule values
1357 Since Bison 2.2, Bison has warned about mid-rule values that are set but not
1358 used within any of the actions of the parent rule. For example, Bison warns
1361 exp: '1' { $$ = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $1 + $4; };
1363 Now, Bison also warns about mid-rule values that are used but not set. For
1364 example, Bison warns about unset $$ in the mid-rule action in:
1366 exp: '1' { $1 = 1; } '+' exp { $$ = $2 + $4; };
1368 However, Bison now disables both of these warnings by default since they
1369 sometimes prove to be false alarms in existing grammars employing the Yacc
1370 constructs $0 or $-N (where N is some positive integer).
1372 To enable these warnings, specify the option "--warnings=midrule-values" or
1373 "-W", which is a synonym for "--warnings=all".
1375 ** Default %destructor or %printer with "<*>" or "<>"
1377 Bison now recognizes two separate kinds of default %destructor's and
1380 1. Place "<*>" in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
1381 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols for which you have formally
1382 declared semantic type tags.
1384 2. Place "<>" in a %destructor/%printer symbol list to define a default
1385 %destructor/%printer for all grammar symbols without declared semantic
1388 Bison no longer supports the "%symbol-default" notation from Bison 2.3a.
1389 "<*>" and "<>" combined achieve the same effect with one exception: Bison no
1390 longer applies any %destructor to a mid-rule value if that mid-rule value is
1391 not actually ever referenced using either $$ or $n in a semantic action.
1393 The default %destructor's and %printer's are experimental. More user
1394 feedback will help to determine whether they should become permanent
1397 See the section "Freeing Discarded Symbols" in the Bison manual for further
1400 ** %left, %right, and %nonassoc can now declare token numbers. This is required
1401 by POSIX. However, see the end of section "Operator Precedence" in the Bison
1402 manual for a caveat concerning the treatment of literal strings.
1404 ** The nonfunctional --no-parser, -n, and %no-parser options have been
1405 completely removed from Bison.
1407 * Changes in version 2.3a, 2006-09-13:
1409 ** Instead of %union, you can define and use your own union type
1410 YYSTYPE if your grammar contains at least one <type> tag.
1411 Your YYSTYPE need not be a macro; it can be a typedef.
1412 This change is for compatibility with other Yacc implementations,
1413 and is required by POSIX.
1415 ** Locations columns and lines start at 1.
1416 In accordance with the GNU Coding Standards and Emacs.
1418 ** You may now declare per-type and default %destructor's and %printer's:
1422 %union { char *string; }
1423 %token <string> STRING1
1424 %token <string> STRING2
1425 %type <string> string1
1426 %type <string> string2
1427 %union { char character; }
1428 %token <character> CHR
1429 %type <character> chr
1430 %destructor { free ($$); } %symbol-default
1431 %destructor { free ($$); printf ("%d", @$.first_line); } STRING1 string1
1432 %destructor { } <character>
1434 guarantees that, when the parser discards any user-defined symbol that has a
1435 semantic type tag other than "<character>", it passes its semantic value to
1436 "free". However, when the parser discards a "STRING1" or a "string1", it
1437 also prints its line number to "stdout". It performs only the second
1438 "%destructor" in this case, so it invokes "free" only once.
1440 [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the default
1441 %destructor's and %printer's were experimental, and they were rewritten in
1444 ** Except for LALR(1) parsers in C with POSIX Yacc emulation enabled (with "-y",
1445 "--yacc", or "%yacc"), Bison no longer generates #define statements for
1446 associating token numbers with token names. Removing the #define statements
1447 helps to sanitize the global namespace during preprocessing, but POSIX Yacc
1448 requires them. Bison still generates an enum for token names in all cases.
1450 ** Handling of traditional Yacc prologue blocks is now more consistent but
1451 potentially incompatible with previous releases of Bison.
1453 As before, you declare prologue blocks in your grammar file with the
1454 "%{ ... %}" syntax. To generate the pre-prologue, Bison concatenates all
1455 prologue blocks that you've declared before the first %union. To generate
1456 the post-prologue, Bison concatenates all prologue blocks that you've
1457 declared after the first %union.
1459 Previous releases of Bison inserted the pre-prologue into both the header
1460 file and the code file in all cases except for LALR(1) parsers in C. In the
1461 latter case, Bison inserted it only into the code file. For parsers in C++,
1462 the point of insertion was before any token definitions (which associate
1463 token numbers with names). For parsers in C, the point of insertion was
1464 after the token definitions.
1466 Now, Bison never inserts the pre-prologue into the header file. In the code
1467 file, it always inserts it before the token definitions.
1469 ** Bison now provides a more flexible alternative to the traditional Yacc
1470 prologue blocks: %before-header, %start-header, %end-header, and
1473 For example, the following declaration order in the grammar file reflects the
1474 order in which Bison will output these code blocks. However, you are free to
1475 declare these code blocks in your grammar file in whatever order is most
1479 /* Bison treats this block like a pre-prologue block: it inserts it into
1480 * the code file before the contents of the header file. It does *not*
1481 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to put
1482 * #include's that you want at the top of your code file. A common
1483 * example is '#include "system.h"'. */
1486 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
1487 * In both files, the point of insertion is before any Bison-generated
1488 * token, semantic type, location type, and class definitions. This is a
1489 * good place to define %union dependencies, for example. */
1492 /* Unlike the traditional Yacc prologue blocks, the output order for the
1493 * new %*-header blocks is not affected by their declaration position
1494 * relative to any %union in the grammar file. */
1497 /* Bison inserts this block into both the header file and the code file.
1498 * In both files, the point of insertion is after the Bison-generated
1499 * definitions. This is a good place to declare or define public
1500 * functions or data structures that depend on the Bison-generated
1504 /* Bison treats this block like a post-prologue block: it inserts it into
1505 * the code file after the contents of the header file. It does *not*
1506 * insert it into the header file. This is a good place to declare or
1507 * define internal functions or data structures that depend on the
1508 * Bison-generated definitions. */
1511 If you have multiple occurrences of any one of the above declarations, Bison
1512 will concatenate the contents in declaration order.
1514 [Although we failed to mention this here in the 2.3a release, the prologue
1515 alternatives were experimental, and they were rewritten in future versions.]
1517 ** The option "--report=look-ahead" has been changed to "--report=lookahead".
1518 The old spelling still works, but is not documented and may be removed
1519 in a future release.
1521 * Changes in version 2.3, 2006-06-05:
1523 ** GLR grammars should now use "YYRECOVERING ()" instead of "YYRECOVERING",
1524 for compatibility with LALR(1) grammars.
1526 ** It is now documented that any definition of YYSTYPE or YYLTYPE should
1527 be to a type name that does not contain parentheses or brackets.
1529 * Changes in version 2.2, 2006-05-19:
1531 ** The distribution terms for all Bison-generated parsers now permit
1532 using the parsers in nonfree programs. Previously, this permission
1533 was granted only for Bison-generated LALR(1) parsers in C.
1535 ** %name-prefix changes the namespace name in C++ outputs.
1537 ** The C++ parsers export their token_type.
1539 ** Bison now allows multiple %union declarations, and concatenates
1540 their contents together.
1542 ** New warning: unused values
1543 Right-hand side symbols whose values are not used are reported,
1544 if the symbols have destructors. For instance:
1546 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; }
1550 will trigger a warning about $$ and $5 in the first rule, and $3 in
1551 the second ($1 is copied to $$ by the default rule). This example
1552 most likely contains three errors, and could be rewritten as:
1554 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp
1555 { $$ = $1 ? $3 : $5; free ($1 ? $5 : $3); free ($1); }
1557 { $$ = $1 ? $1 : $3; if ($1) free ($3); }
1560 However, if the original actions were really intended, memory leaks
1561 and all, the warnings can be suppressed by letting Bison believe the
1562 values are used, e.g.:
1564 exp: exp "?" exp ":" exp { $1 ? $1 : $3; (void) ($$, $5); }
1565 | exp "+" exp { $$ = $1; (void) $3; }
1568 If there are mid-rule actions, the warning is issued if no action
1569 uses it. The following triggers no warning: $1 and $3 are used.
1571 exp: exp { push ($1); } '+' exp { push ($3); sum (); };
1573 The warning is intended to help catching lost values and memory leaks.
1574 If a value is ignored, its associated memory typically is not reclaimed.
1576 ** %destructor vs. YYABORT, YYACCEPT, and YYERROR.
1577 Destructors are now called when user code invokes YYABORT, YYACCEPT,
1578 and YYERROR, for all objects on the stack, other than objects
1579 corresponding to the right-hand side of the current rule.
1581 ** %expect, %expect-rr
1582 Incorrect numbers of expected conflicts are now actual errors,
1583 instead of warnings.
1585 ** GLR, YACC parsers.
1586 The %parse-params are available in the destructors (and the
1587 experimental printers) as per the documentation.
1589 ** Bison now warns if it finds a stray "$" or "@" in an action.
1591 ** %require "VERSION"
1592 This specifies that the grammar file depends on features implemented
1593 in Bison version VERSION or higher.
1595 ** lalr1.cc: The token and value types are now class members.
1596 The tokens were defined as free form enums and cpp macros. YYSTYPE
1597 was defined as a free form union. They are now class members:
1598 tokens are enumerations of the "yy::parser::token" struct, and the
1599 semantic values have the "yy::parser::semantic_type" type.
1601 If you do not want or can update to this scheme, the directive
1602 '%define "global_tokens_and_yystype" "1"' triggers the global
1603 definition of tokens and YYSTYPE. This change is suitable both
1604 for previous releases of Bison, and this one.
1606 If you wish to update, then make sure older version of Bison will
1607 fail using '%require "2.2"'.
1609 ** DJGPP support added.
1611 * Changes in version 2.1, 2005-09-16:
1613 ** The C++ lalr1.cc skeleton supports %lex-param.
1615 ** Bison-generated parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like
1616 "syntax error" into languages other than English. The default
1617 language is still English. For details, please see the new
1618 Internationalization section of the Bison manual. Software
1619 distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file. Thanks to
1620 Bruno Haible for this new feature.
1622 ** Wording in the Bison-generated parsers has been changed slightly to
1623 simplify translation. In particular, the message "memory exhausted"
1624 has replaced "parser stack overflow", as the old message was not
1625 always accurate for modern Bison-generated parsers.
1627 ** Destructors are now called when the parser aborts, for all symbols left
1628 behind on the stack. Also, the start symbol is now destroyed after a
1629 successful parse. In both cases, the behavior was formerly inconsistent.
1631 ** When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated parsers no longer
1632 quote the literal strings associated with tokens. For example, for
1633 a syntax error associated with '%token NUM "number"' they might
1634 print 'syntax error, unexpected number' instead of 'syntax error,
1635 unexpected "number"'.
1637 * Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25:
1639 ** Possibly-incompatible changes
1641 - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
1642 (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
1643 problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection. You can "#define
1644 YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read
1645 the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.
1647 - Error token location.
1648 During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
1649 to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
1650 the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
1651 recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
1653 - Semicolon changes:
1654 . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
1655 . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
1657 - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
1658 string literals. They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
1659 dropped support for them. Better diagnostics are now generated if
1660 forget a closing quote.
1662 - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
1666 - GLR grammars now support locations.
1668 - New directive: %initial-action.
1669 This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
1670 initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
1672 - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
1673 reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.
1675 - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., "%token FOO 0x12d".
1676 This is a GNU extension.
1678 - The option "--report=lookahead" was changed to "--report=look-ahead".
1679 [However, this was changed back after 2.3.]
1681 - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
1683 - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
1684 yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
1688 - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
1689 This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
1690 reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
1691 are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts). However, in future
1692 versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
1693 these violations will become errors again.
1695 - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer
1696 arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
1698 - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
1700 * Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01:
1702 ** The documentation license has been upgraded to version 1.2
1703 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
1705 ** syntax error processing
1707 - In Yacc-style parsers YYLLOC_DEFAULT is now used to compute error
1708 locations too. This fixes bugs in error-location computation.
1711 It is now possible to reclaim the memory associated to symbols
1712 discarded during error recovery. This feature is still experimental.
1715 This new directive is preferred over YYERROR_VERBOSE.
1717 - #defining yyerror to steal internal variables is discouraged.
1718 It is not guaranteed to work forever.
1720 ** POSIX conformance
1722 - Semicolons are once again optional at the end of grammar rules.
1723 This reverts to the behavior of Bison 1.33 and earlier, and improves
1724 compatibility with Yacc.
1726 - "parse error" -> "syntax error"
1727 Bison now uniformly uses the term "syntax error"; formerly, the code
1728 and manual sometimes used the term "parse error" instead. POSIX
1729 requires "syntax error" in diagnostics, and it was thought better to
1732 - The documentation now emphasizes that yylex and yyerror must be
1733 declared before use. C99 requires this.
1735 - Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like UCNs and
1736 backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires.
1738 - File names are properly escaped in C output. E.g., foo\bar.y is
1739 output as "foo\\bar.y".
1741 - Yacc command and library now available
1742 The Bison distribution now installs a "yacc" command, as POSIX requires.
1743 Also, Bison now installs a small library liby.a containing
1744 implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions.
1745 This library is normally not useful, but POSIX requires it.
1747 - Type clashes now generate warnings, not errors.
1749 - If the user does not define YYSTYPE as a macro, Bison now declares it
1750 using typedef instead of defining it as a macro.
1751 For consistency, YYLTYPE is also declared instead of defined.
1753 ** Other compatibility issues
1755 - %union directives can now have a tag before the "{", e.g., the
1756 directive "%union foo {...}" now generates the C code
1757 "typedef union foo { ... } YYSTYPE;"; this is for Yacc compatibility.
1758 The default union tag is "YYSTYPE", for compatibility with Solaris 9 Yacc.
1759 For consistency, YYLTYPE's struct tag is now "YYLTYPE" not "yyltype".
1760 This is for compatibility with both Yacc and Bison 1.35.
1762 - ";" is output before the terminating "}" of an action, for
1763 compatibility with Bison 1.35.
1765 - Bison now uses a Yacc-style format for conflict reports, e.g.,
1766 "conflicts: 2 shift/reduce, 1 reduce/reduce".
1768 - "yystype" and "yyltype" are now obsolescent macros instead of being
1769 typedefs or tags; they are no longer documented and are planned to be
1770 withdrawn in a future release.
1775 Users of Bison have to decide how they handle the portability of the
1778 - "parsing stack overflow..." -> "parser stack overflow"
1779 GLR parsers now report "parser stack overflow" as per the Bison manual.
1781 ** %parse-param and %lex-param
1782 The macros YYPARSE_PARAM and YYLEX_PARAM provide a means to pass
1783 additional context to yyparse and yylex. They suffer from several
1786 - a single argument only can be added,
1787 - their types are weak (void *),
1788 - this context is not passed to ancillary functions such as yyerror,
1789 - only yacc.c parsers support them.
1791 The new %parse-param/%lex-param directives provide a more precise control.
1794 %parse-param {int *nastiness}
1795 %lex-param {int *nastiness}
1796 %parse-param {int *randomness}
1798 results in the following signatures:
1800 int yylex (int *nastiness);
1801 int yyparse (int *nastiness, int *randomness);
1803 or, if both %pure-parser and %locations are used:
1805 int yylex (YYSTYPE *lvalp, YYLTYPE *llocp, int *nastiness);
1806 int yyparse (int *nastiness, int *randomness);
1808 ** Bison now warns if it detects conflicting outputs to the same file,
1809 e.g., it generates a warning for "bison -d -o foo.h foo.y" since
1810 that command outputs both code and header to foo.h.
1812 ** #line in output files
1813 - --no-line works properly.
1815 ** Bison can no longer be built by a K&R C compiler; it requires C89 or
1816 later to be built. This change originally took place a few versions
1817 ago, but nobody noticed until we recently asked someone to try
1818 building Bison with a K&R C compiler.
1820 * Changes in version 1.75, 2002-10-14:
1822 ** Bison should now work on 64-bit hosts.
1824 ** Indonesian translation thanks to Tedi Heriyanto.
1827 Fix spurious parse errors.
1830 Some people redefine yyerror to steal yyparse' private variables.
1831 Reenable this trick until an official feature replaces it.
1834 In agreement with POSIX and with other Yaccs, leaving a default
1835 action is valid when $$ is untyped, and $1 typed:
1839 but the converse remains an error:
1843 ** Values of mid-rule actions
1846 foo: { ... } { $$ = $1; } ...
1848 was incorrectly rejected: $1 is defined in the second mid-rule
1849 action, and is equal to the $$ of the first mid-rule action.
1851 * Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04:
1856 causes Bison to produce a Generalized LR (GLR) parser, capable of handling
1857 almost any context-free grammar, ambiguous or not. The new declarations
1858 %dprec and %merge on grammar rules allow parse-time resolution of
1859 ambiguities. Contributed by Paul Hilfinger.
1861 Unfortunately Bison 1.50 does not work properly on 64-bit hosts
1862 like the Alpha, so please stick to 32-bit hosts for now.
1865 When not in Yacc compatibility mode, when the output file was not
1866 specified, running "bison foo/bar.y" created "foo/bar.c". It
1867 now creates "bar.c".
1870 The undefined token was systematically mapped to 2 which prevented
1871 the use of 2 by the user. This is no longer the case.
1873 ** Unknown token numbers
1874 If yylex returned an out of range value, yyparse could die. This is
1878 According to POSIX, the error token must be 256.
1879 Bison extends this requirement by making it a preference: *if* the
1880 user specified that one of her tokens is numbered 256, then error
1881 will be mapped onto another number.
1883 ** Verbose error messages
1884 They no longer report "..., expecting error or..." for states where
1885 error recovery is possible.
1888 Defaults to "$end" instead of "$".
1890 ** Error recovery now conforms to documentation and to POSIX
1891 When a Bison-generated parser encounters a syntax error, it now pops
1892 the stack until it finds a state that allows shifting the error
1893 token. Formerly, it popped the stack until it found a state that
1894 allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the
1895 error token. The new behavior has long been the documented behavior,
1896 and has long been required by POSIX. For more details, please see
1897 Paul Eggert, "Reductions during Bison error handling" (2002-05-20)
1898 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2002-05/msg00038.html>.
1901 Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.
1904 Larger grammars are now supported (larger token numbers, larger grammar
1905 size (= sum of the LHS and RHS lengths), larger LALR tables).
1906 Formerly, many of these numbers ran afoul of 16-bit limits;
1907 now these limits are 32 bits on most hosts.
1909 ** Explicit initial rule
1910 Bison used to play hacks with the initial rule, which the user does
1911 not write. It is now explicit, and visible in the reports and
1915 Before, Bison reported the useless rules, but, although not used,
1916 included them in the parsers. They are now actually removed.
1918 ** Useless rules, useless nonterminals
1919 They are now reported, as a warning, with their locations.
1921 ** Rules never reduced
1922 Rules that can never be reduced because of conflicts are now
1925 ** Incorrect "Token not used"
1926 On a grammar such as
1928 %token useless useful
1930 exp: '0' %prec useful;
1932 where a token was used to set the precedence of the last rule,
1933 bison reported both "useful" and "useless" as useless tokens.
1935 ** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31
1936 as they caused too many portability hassles.
1938 ** Default locations
1939 By an accident of design, the default computation of @$ was
1940 performed after another default computation was performed: @$ = @1.
1941 The latter is now removed: YYLLOC_DEFAULT is fully responsible of
1942 the computation of @$.
1944 ** Token end-of-file
1945 The token end of file may be specified by the user, in which case,
1946 the user symbol is used in the reports, the graphs, and the verbose
1947 error messages instead of "$end", which remains being the default.
1951 %token MYEOF 0 "end of file"
1954 This old option, which has been broken for ages, is removed.
1957 Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Alexandre Folle de Menezes.
1958 Croatian, thanks to Denis Lackovic.
1960 ** Incorrect token definitions
1963 bison used to output
1966 ** Token definitions as enums
1967 Tokens are output both as the traditional #define's, and, provided
1968 the compiler supports ANSI C or is a C++ compiler, as enums.
1969 This lets debuggers display names instead of integers.
1972 In addition to --verbose, bison supports --report=THINGS, which
1973 produces additional information:
1975 complete the core item sets with their closure
1976 - lookahead [changed to "look-ahead" in 1.875e through 2.3, but changed back]
1977 explicitly associate lookahead tokens to items
1979 describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
1980 Bison used to systematically output this information on top of
1981 the report. Solved conflicts are now attached to their states.
1984 Previous versions don't complain when there is a type clash on
1985 the default action if the rule has a mid-rule action, such as in:
1993 ** GNU M4 is now required when using Bison.
1995 * Changes in version 1.35, 2002-03-25:
1998 Some projects use Bison's C parser with C++ compilers, and define
1999 YYSTYPE as a class. The recent adjustment of C parsers for data
2000 alignment and 64 bit architectures made this impossible.
2002 Because for the time being no real solution for C++ parser
2003 generation exists, kludges were implemented in the parser to
2004 maintain this use. In the future, when Bison has C++ parsers, this
2005 kludge will be disabled.
2007 This kludge also addresses some C++ problems when the stack was
2010 * Changes in version 1.34, 2002-03-12:
2012 ** File name clashes are detected
2013 $ bison foo.y -d -o foo.x
2014 fatal error: header and parser would both be named "foo.x"
2016 ** A missing ";" at the end of a rule triggers a warning
2017 In accordance with POSIX, and in agreement with other
2018 Yacc implementations, Bison will mandate this semicolon in the near
2019 future. This eases the implementation of a Bison parser of Bison
2020 grammars by making this grammar LALR(1) instead of LR(2). To
2021 facilitate the transition, this release introduces a warning.
2023 ** Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31, as they caused too
2024 many portability hassles.
2026 ** DJGPP support added.
2028 ** Fix test suite portability problems.
2030 * Changes in version 1.33, 2002-02-07:
2033 Groff could not be compiled for the definition of size_t was lacking
2034 under some conditions.
2039 * Changes in version 1.32, 2002-01-23:
2041 ** Fix Yacc output file names
2043 ** Portability fixes
2045 ** Italian, Dutch translations
2047 * Changes in version 1.31, 2002-01-14:
2051 ** GNU Gettext and %expect
2052 GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
2053 Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
2054 too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
2055 does not trigger an error when the input file is named "plural.y".
2057 ** Use of alloca in parsers
2058 If YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA is defined to 0, then the parsers will use
2059 malloc exclusively. Since 1.29, but was not NEWS'ed.
2061 alloca is used only when compiled with GCC, to avoid portability
2064 ** yyparse now returns 2 if memory is exhausted; formerly it dumped core.
2066 ** When the generated parser lacks debugging code, YYDEBUG is now 0
2067 (as POSIX requires) instead of being undefined.
2070 Bison has always permitted actions such as { $$ = $1 }: it adds the
2071 ending semicolon. Now if in Yacc compatibility mode, the semicolon
2072 is no longer output: one has to write { $$ = $1; }.
2074 ** Better C++ compliance
2075 The output parsers try to respect C++ namespaces.
2076 [This turned out to be a failed experiment, and it was reverted later.]
2079 Fixed bugs when reporting useless nonterminals.
2082 The parsers work properly on 64 bit hosts.
2085 Some calls to strerror resulted in scrambled or missing error messages.
2088 When the number of shift/reduce conflicts is correct, don't issue
2091 ** The verbose report includes the rule line numbers.
2093 ** Rule line numbers are fixed in traces.
2095 ** Swedish translation
2098 Verbose parse error messages from the parsers are better looking.
2099 Before: parse error: unexpected `'/'', expecting `"number"' or `'-'' or `'(''
2100 Now: parse error: unexpected '/', expecting "number" or '-' or '('
2102 ** Fixed parser memory leaks.
2103 When the generated parser was using malloc to extend its stacks, the
2104 previous allocations were not freed.
2106 ** Fixed verbose output file.
2107 Some newlines were missing.
2108 Some conflicts in state descriptions were missing.
2110 ** Fixed conflict report.
2111 Option -v was needed to get the result.
2115 Mismatches are errors, not warnings.
2117 ** Fixed incorrect processing of some invalid input.
2119 ** Fixed CPP guards: 9foo.h uses BISON_9FOO_H instead of 9FOO_H.
2121 ** Fixed some typos in the documentation.
2123 ** %token MY_EOF 0 is supported.
2124 Before, MY_EOF was silently renumbered as 257.
2126 ** doc/refcard.tex is updated.
2128 ** %output, %file-prefix, %name-prefix.
2132 New, aliasing "--output-file".
2134 * Changes in version 1.30, 2001-10-26:
2136 ** "--defines" and "--graph" have now an optional argument which is the
2137 output file name. "-d" and "-g" do not change; they do not take any
2140 ** "%source_extension" and "%header_extension" are removed, failed
2143 ** Portability fixes.
2145 * Changes in version 1.29, 2001-09-07:
2147 ** The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used
2148 with common autoconfiguration schemes. If you still use ancient compilers
2149 that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option
2150 "-Dconst=". Autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this.
2152 ** Added "-g" and "--graph".
2154 ** The Bison manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
2156 ** The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension.
2158 ** Russian translation added.
2160 ** NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
2162 ** Added the old Bison reference card.
2164 ** Added "--locations" and "%locations".
2166 ** Added "-S" and "--skeleton".
2168 ** "%raw", "-r", "--raw" is disabled.
2170 ** Special characters are escaped when output. This solves the problems
2171 of the #line lines with path names including backslashes.
2174 "%yacc", "%fixed_output_files", "%defines", "%no_parser", "%verbose",
2175 "%debug", "%source_extension" and "%header_extension".
2178 Automatic location tracking.
2180 * Changes in version 1.28, 1999-07-06:
2182 ** Should compile better now with K&R compilers.
2186 ** Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character.
2188 ** There is now a FAQ.
2190 * Changes in version 1.27:
2192 ** The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on
2193 some systems has been fixed.
2195 * Changes in version 1.26:
2197 ** Bison now uses Automake.
2199 ** New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>.
2201 ** Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258.
2203 ** Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable.
2205 ** A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed.
2207 ** Problems when closing files should now be reported.
2209 ** Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do
2210 not provide alloca().
2212 * Changes in version 1.25, 1995-10-16:
2214 ** Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading
2215 the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it.
2217 ** Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for
2218 example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead
2219 of choosing a name like LESSEQ.
2221 ** The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names
2222 and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this
2223 table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other
2226 ** The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor
2227 directives in the parser file.
2229 ** The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not
2230 Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros.
2232 ** The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including
2233 the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine.
2234 The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of
2235 a switch statement body.
2237 * Changes in version 1.23:
2239 The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be
2240 passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should
2241 actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable
2242 by casting it to the proper pointer type.
2244 Line numbers in output file corrected.
2246 * Changes in version 1.22:
2248 --help option added.
2250 * Changes in version 1.20:
2252 Output file does not redefine const for C++.
2256 Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2258 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.
2260 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2261 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
2262 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2263 (at your option) any later version.
2265 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2266 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2267 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2268 GNU General Public License for more details.
2270 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
2271 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
2273 LocalWords: yacc YYBACKUP glr GCC lalr ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException nullptr
2274 LocalWords: cplusplus liby rpl fprintf mfcalc Wyacc stmt cond expr mk sym lr
2275 LocalWords: IELR ielr Lookahead YYERROR nonassoc LALR's api lookaheads yychar
2276 LocalWords: destructor lookahead YYRHSLOC YYLLOC Rhs ifndef YYFAIL cpp sr rr
2277 LocalWords: preprocessor initializer Wno Wnone Werror FreeBSD prec livelocks
2278 LocalWords: Solaris AIX UX RHEL Tru LHS gcc's Wundef YYENABLE NLS YYLTYPE VCG
2279 LocalWords: yyerror cpp's Wunused yylval yylloc prepend yyparse yylex yypush
2280 LocalWords: Graphviz xml nonterminals midrule destructor's YYSTYPE typedef ly
2281 LocalWords: CHR chr printf stdout namespace preprocessing enum pre include's
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2283 LocalWords: struct yystype DJGPP lex param Haible NUM alloca YYSTACK NUL goto
2284 LocalWords: YYMAXDEPTH Unescaped UCNs YYLTYPE's yyltype typedefs inline Yaccs
2285 LocalWords: Heriyanto Reenable dprec Hilfinger Eggert MYEOF Folle Menezes EOF
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2287 LocalWords: namespaces strerror const autoconfiguration Dconst Autoconf's FDL
2288 LocalWords: Automake TMPDIR LESSEQ ylwrap endif yydebug YYTOKEN YYLSP ival hh
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2290 LocalWords: lang yyoutput dvi html ps POSIX lvalp llocp Wother nterm arg init
2291 LocalWords: TOK calc yyo fval Wconflicts