Bison News ---------- Changes in version 1.49a: * Items overflow Bison no longer dumps core when there are too many items, it just dies. * Token end-of-file The token end of file may be specified by the user, in which case, the user symbol is used in the reports, the graphs, and the verbose error messages instead of `$', which remains being the defaults. For instance %token YYEOF 0 or %token YYEOF 0 "end of file" Changes in version 1.30: * `--defines' and `--graph' have now an optionnal argument which is the output file name. `-d' and `-g' do not change, they do not take any argument. * `%source_extension' and `%header_extension' are removed, failed experiment. * Portability fixes. Changes in version 1.29, 2001-09-07: * The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used with common autoconfiguration schemes. If you still use ancient compilers that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option `-Dconst='. autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this. * Added `-g' and `--graph'. * The Bison manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL. * The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension. * Russian translation added. * NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome. * Added the old Bison reference card. * Added `--locations' and `%locations'. * Added `-S' and `--skeleton'. * `%raw', `-r', `--raw' is disabled. * Special characters are escaped when output. This solves the problems of the #line lines with path names including backslashes. * New directives. `%yacc', `%fixed_output_files', `%defines', `%no_parser', `%verbose', `%debug', `%source_extension' and `%header_extension'. * @$ Automatic location tracking. Changes in version 1.28, 1999-07-06: * Should compile better now with K&R compilers. * Added NLS. * Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character. * There is now a FAQ. Changes in version 1.27: * The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on some systems has been fixed. Changes in version 1.26: * Bison now uses automake. * New mailing lists: <bug-bison@gnu.org> and <help-bison@gnu.org>. * Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258. * Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable. * A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed. * Problems when closing files should now be reported. * Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do not provide alloca(). Changes in version 1.25, 1995-10-16: * Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it. * Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead of chosing a name like LESSEQ. * The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other purposes. * The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor directives in the parser file. * The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros. * The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine. The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of a switch statement body. Changes in version 1.23: The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable by casting it to the proper pointer type. Line numbers in output file corrected. Changes in version 1.22: --help option added. Changes in version 1.20: Output file does not redefine const for C++. Local Variables: mode: outline End: