misc: document TESTSUITEFLAGS in README-hacking

[bison.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 29b6b3230ebac5ae128a77d43a9c16496ce6988b..346c4da4be17a4481251f5c37c068ed350235235 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 *** Enhancements of the -Werror option
 
   The -Werror=CATEGORY option is now recognized, and will treat specified
-  warnings as errors. The warnings need not have been explictly activated
-  using the -W option, this is similar to what gcc 4.7 does.
+  warnings as errors. The warnings need not have been explicitly activated
+  using the -W option, this is similar to what GCC 4.7 does.
 
   For example, given the following command line, Bison will treat both
-  warnings related to POSIX Yacc incompatiblities and S/R conflicts as
+  warnings related to POSIX Yacc incompatibilities and S/R conflicts as
   errors (and only those):
 
     $ bison -Werror=yacc,error=conflicts-sr input.y
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
   In the case of warnings treated as errors, the prefix is changed from
   "warning: " to "error: ", and the suffix is displayed, in a manner similar
-  to gcc, as [-Werror=CATEGORY].
+  to GCC, as [-Werror=CATEGORY].
 
   For instance, where the previous version of Bison would report (and exit
   with failure):
@@ -211,11 +211,15 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   use these prefixed token names, although the grammar itself still
   uses the short names (as in the sample rule given above).
 
-** Variable api.namespace
+** Renamed %define variables
 
-  The 'namespace' variable is renamed 'api.namespace'.  Backward
+  The following variables have been renamed for consistency.  Backward
   compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended.
 
+    lr.default-reductions      -> lr.default-reduction
+    lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state
+    namespace                  -> api.namespace
+
 ** Variable parse.error
 
   This variable controls the verbosity of error messages.  The use of the
@@ -279,7 +283,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
   The parse function now catches exceptions, uses the %destructors to
   release memory (the lookahead symbol and the symbols pushed on the stack)
-  before rethrowing the exception.
+  before re-throwing the exception.
 
   This feature is somewhat experimental.  User feedback would be
   appreciated.
@@ -301,7 +305,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   "function declared 'noreturn' should not return") have also been
   addressed.
 
-** New %define variable: api.location.type (glr.cc, lalr1.cc)
+** New %define variable: api.location.type (glr.cc, lalr1.cc, lalr1.java)
 
   The %define variable api.location.type defines the name of the type to use
   for locations.  When defined, Bison no longer generates the position.hh
@@ -316,6 +320,10 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   under the name "location_type" (which is maintained for backward
   compatibility).
 
+  For consistency, lalr1.java's %define variables location_type and
+  position_type are deprecated in favor of api.location.type and
+  api.position.type.
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.2 (2012-08-03) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
@@ -2174,7 +2182,7 @@ along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  LocalWords:  Automake TMPDIR LESSEQ ylwrap endif yydebug YYTOKEN YYLSP ival hh
  LocalWords:  extern YYTOKENTYPE TOKENTYPE yytokentype tokentype STYPE lval pdf
  LocalWords:  lang yyoutput dvi html ps POSIX lvalp llocp Wother nterm arg init
- LocalWords:  TOK calc yyo fval
+ LocalWords:  TOK calc yyo fval Wconflicts
 
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