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@@ -12,15 +12,41 @@ the pretty format of states from .output in the .dot
 Also, the underscore in print_graph.[ch] isn't very fitting considering
 the dashes in the other filenames.
 
-** Variable names.
-What should we name `variant' and `lex_symbol'?
-
-** Use b4_symbol in all the skeleton
-Move its definition in the more standard places and deploy it in other
-skeletons.  Then remove the older system, including the tables
-generated by output.c
-
-** Update the documentation on gnu.org
+** push-parser
+Check it too when checking the different kinds of parsers.  And be
+sure to check that the initial-action is performed once per parsing.
+
+** m4 names
+b4_shared_declarations is no longer what it is.  Make it
+b4_parser_declaration for instance.
+
+** yychar in lalr1.cc
+There is a large difference bw maint and master on the handling of
+yychar (which was removed in lalr1.cc).  See what needs to be
+back-ported.
+
+
+    /* User semantic actions sometimes alter yychar, and that requires
+       that yytoken be updated with the new translation.  We take the
+       approach of translating immediately before every use of yytoken.
+       One alternative is translating here after every semantic action,
+       but that translation would be missed if the semantic action
+       invokes YYABORT, YYACCEPT, or YYERROR immediately after altering
+       yychar.  In the case of YYABORT or YYACCEPT, an incorrect
+       destructor might then be invoked immediately.  In the case of
+       YYERROR, subsequent parser actions might lead to an incorrect
+       destructor call or verbose syntax error message before the
+       lookahead is translated.  */
+
+    /* Make sure we have latest lookahead translation.  See comments at
+       user semantic actions for why this is necessary.  */
+    yytoken = yytranslate_ (yychar);
+
+
+** stack.hh
+Get rid of it.  The original idea is nice, but actually it makes
+the code harder to follow, and uselessly different from the other
+skeletons.
 
 ** Get rid of fake #lines [Bison: ...]
 Possibly as simple as checking whether the column number is nonnegative.
@@ -48,14 +74,7 @@ since it is no longer bound to a particular parser, it's just a
 ** Rename LR0.cc
 as lr0.cc, why upper case?
 
-** bench several bisons.
-Enhance bench.pl with %b to run different bisons.
-
 * Various
-** Warnings
-Warnings about type tags that are used in printer and dtors, but not
-for symbols?
-
 ** YYERRCODE
 Defined to 256, but not used, not documented.  Probably the token
 number for the error token, which POSIX wants to be 256, but which
@@ -101,9 +120,6 @@ so both 256 and 257 are "mysterious".
   "\"end of command\"", "error", "$undefined", "\"=\"", "\"break\"",
 
 
-** YYFAIL
-It is seems to be *really* obsolete now, shall we remove it?
-
 ** yychar == yyempty_
 The code in yyerrlab reads:
 
@@ -121,12 +137,6 @@ really possible?  The test suite does not exercise this case.
 This shows that it would be interesting to manage to install skeleton
 coverage analysis to the test suite.
 
-** Table definitions
-It should be very easy to factor the definition of the various tables,
-including the separation bw declaration and definition.  See for
-instance b4_table_define in lalr1.cc.  This way, we could even factor
-C vs. C++ definitions.
-
 * From lalr1.cc to yacc.c
 ** Single stack
 Merging the three stacks in lalr1.cc simplified the code, prompted for
@@ -252,9 +262,6 @@ Paul notes:
         tokens, either via escapes (e.g., "x\0y") or via a NUL byte in
         the source code.  This should get fixed.
 
-* --graph
-Show reductions.
-
 * Broken options ?
 ** %token-table
 ** Skeleton strategy
@@ -351,7 +358,7 @@ End:
 
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-Copyright (C) 2001-2004, 2006, 2008-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2004, 2006, 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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