TODO: Mention that we should allow NUL bytes in tokens.

[bison.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dd21fa1cf2ce6e644aa788a70d3126188c41ea0d..a3130f93d551a0d29e136d4b483930a0cbe3df84 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,28 +1,69 @@
 Bison News
 ----------
 
 Bison News
 ----------
 

-Changes in version 1.875c, 2003-06-17:
+Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25:

 
 

-Changes in version 1.875b, 2003-06-17:
+* Possibly-incompatible changes

 
 

-* GLR grammars now support locations.
+  - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
+    (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
+    problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection.  You can "#define
+    YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read
+    the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.

 
 

-* Semicolon changes:
-  - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
-  - Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
-  - Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
+  - Error token location.
+    During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
+    to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
+    the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
+    recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
+
+  - Semicolon changes:
+    . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
+    . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
+
+  - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
+    string literals.  They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
+    dropped support for them.  Better diagnostics are now generated if
+    forget a closing quote.
+
+  - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
+
+* New features
+
+  - GLR grammars now support locations.
+
+  - New directive: %initial-action.
+    This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
+    initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.

 
 

-Changes in version 1.875a, 2003-02-01:
+  - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
+    reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.

 
 

-* For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
-  This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
-  reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
-  are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts).  However, in future
-  versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
-  these violations will become errors again.
+  - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., `%token FOO 0x12d'.
+    This is a GNU extension.

 
 

-* New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
-  yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
+  - The option `--report=lookahead' was changed to `--report=look-ahead'.
+    The old spelling still works, but is not documented and will be
+    removed.
+
+  - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
+
+  - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
+    yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
+
+* Bug fixes
+
+  - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
+    This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
+    reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
+    are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts).  However, in future
+    versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
+    these violations will become errors again.
+
+  - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer
+    arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
+
+  - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.

 \f
 Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01:
 
 \f
 Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01:
 


@@ -194,7 +235,8 @@ Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04:
   allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the
   error token.  The new behavior has long been the documented behavior,
   and has long been required by POSIX.  For more details, please see
   allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the
   error token.  The new behavior has long been the documented behavior,
   and has long been required by POSIX.  For more details, please see

-  <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-bison/2002-May/001452.html>.
+  Paul Eggert, "Reductions during Bison error handling" (2002-05-20)
+  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2002-05/msg00038.html>.

 
 * Traces
   Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.
 
 * Traces
   Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.


@@ -269,8 +311,8 @@ Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04:
   produces additional information:
   - itemset
     complete the core item sets with their closure
   produces additional information:
   - itemset
     complete the core item sets with their closure

-  - lookahead
-    explicitly associate lookaheads to items
+  - lookahead [changed to `look-ahead' in 1.875e and later]
+    explicitly associate look-ahead tokens to items

   - solved
     describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
     Bison used to systematically output this information on top of
   - solved
     describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
     Bison used to systematically output this information on top of


@@ -551,7 +593,7 @@ End:
 
 -----
 
 
 -----
 

-Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
+Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler.
 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler.