* HACKING (Release Procedure): Recommend a secure automake.

[bison.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5bd64cc1c86bd1b5e1055615a50b8f015a24130a..09610cbf5c19c5aa0e3aba8da44dd33a300fc92e 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -169,6 +169,17 @@ Bison News
   POSIX Yacc whose use is reported by -Wyacc, and rejected in Yacc
   mode (--yacc).
 
+** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it.
+
+  YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
+  deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison.  More recently, it was
+  a documented feature of Bison's experimental Java parsers.  As
+  promised in Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, any appearance of YYFAIL in a
+  semantic action now produces a deprecation warning, and Java parsers
+  no longer implement YYFAIL at all.  For further details, including a
+  discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL
+  being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry.
+
 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
 
   Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for
@@ -212,6 +223,13 @@ Bison News
   were resolved with %nonassoc.  Such tokens are now properly omitted
   from the list.
 
+** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions.
+
+  Previously for deterministic parsers in C, if a user semantic action
+  altered yychar, the parser in some cases used the old yychar value to
+  determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax
+  error or upon parser return.  This bug has been fixed.
+
 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (????-??-??):
 
 ** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.