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+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.90 (2012-12-07) [beta]
+
** Bug fixes
- Bugs and portability issues in the test suite have been fixed.
+ Warnings about uninitialized yylloc in yyparse have been fixed.
- Some errors in translations have been addressed, and --help now directs
- users to the appropriate place to report them.
+** %language is no longer an experimental feature.
- Stray Info files shipped by accident are removed.
+ The introduction of this feature, in 2.4, was four years ago. The --language
+ option and the %language directive are no longer experimental.
- Incorrect definitions of YY_, issued by yacc.c when no parser header is
- generated, are removed.
+** New format for error reports: carets
- All the generated headers are self-contained.
+ Caret errors have been added to Bison, for example (taken from the
+ documentation):
+
+ input.y:3.20-23: error: ambiguous reference: '$exp'
+ exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
+ ^^^^
+ input.y:3.1-3: refers to: $exp at $$
+ exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
+ ^^^
+ input.y:3.6-8: refers to: $exp at $1
+ exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
+ ^^^
+ input.y:3.14-16: refers to: $exp at $3
+ exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
+ ^^^
+
+ The default behaviour for now is still not to display these unless explictly
+ asked with -fall of -fcaret. However, in a later release, it will be made the
+ default behavior (but may still be deactivated with -fno-caret).
+
+** New value for %define variable: api.pure full
+
+ The %define variable api.pure requests a pure (reentrant) parser. However,
+ for historical reasons, using it in a location-tracking Yacc parser resulted
+ in a yyerror function that did not take a location as a parameter. With this
+ new value, the user may request a better pure parser, where yyerror does take
+ a location as a parameter (in location-tracking parsers).
+
+ The use of "%define api.pure true" is deprecated in favor of this new
+ "%define api.pure full".
** Changes in the format of error messages
foo.y:5.10-25: result type clash on merge function 'merge': <t3> != <t2>
foo.y:4.13-27: previous declaration
-** Header guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
-
- In order to avoid collisions, the header guards are now
- YY_<PREFIX>_<FILE>_INCLUDED, instead of merely <PREFIX>_<FILE>.
- For instance the header generated from
-
- %define api.prefix "calc"
- %defines "lib/parse.h"
-
- will use YY_CALC_LIB_PARSE_H_INCLUDED as guard.
-
** Exception safety (lalr1.cc)
The parse function now catches exceptions, uses the %destructors to
This feature is somewhat experimental. User feedback would be
appreciated.
-** Fix compiler warnings in the generated parser (yacc.c, glr.c)
-
- The compilation of pure parsers (%define api.pure) can trigger GCC
- warnings such as:
-
- input.c: In function 'yyparse':
- input.c:1503:12: warning: 'yylval' may be used uninitialized in this
- function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
- *++yyvsp = yylval;
- ^
-
- This is now fixed; pragmas to avoid these warnings are no longer needed.
-
- Warnings from clang ("equality comparison with extraneous parentheses" and
- "function declared 'noreturn' should not return") have also been
- addressed.
-
** 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
position_type are deprecated in favor of api.location.type and
api.position.type.
+** Graph improvements in DOT and XSLT
+
+ The graphical presentation of the states is more readable: their shape is
+ now rectangular, the state number is clearly displayed, and the items are
+ numbered and left-justified.
+
+ The reductions are now explicitly represented as transitions to other
+ diamond shaped nodes.
+
+ These changes are present in both --graph output and xml2dot.xsl XSLT
+ processing, with minor (documented) differences.
+
+ Two nodes were added to the documentation: Xml and Graphviz.
+
+** Documentation
+
+ The sections about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts resolution
+ have been fixed and extended.
+
+ The translation of mid-rule actions is now described.
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.5 (2012-11-07) [stable]
+
+ We consider compiler warnings about Bison generated parsers to be bugs.
+ Rather than working around them in your own project, please consider
+ reporting them to us.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ Warnings about uninitialized yylval and/or yylloc for push parsers with a
+ pure interface have been fixed for GCC 4.0 up to 4.8, and Clang 2.9 to
+ 3.2.
+
+ Other issues in the test suite have been addressed.
+
+ Nul characters are correctly displayed in error messages.
+
+ When possible, yylloc is correctly initialized before calling yylex. It
+ is no longer necessary to initialize it in the %initial-action.
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.4 (2012-10-23) [stable]
+
+ Bison 2.6.3's --version was incorrect. This release fixes this issue.
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.3 (2012-10-22) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ Bugs and portability issues in the test suite have been fixed.
+
+ Some errors in translations have been addressed, and --help now directs
+ users to the appropriate place to report them.
+
+ Stray Info files shipped by accident are removed.
+
+ Incorrect definitions of YY_, issued by yacc.c when no parser header is
+ generated, are removed.
+
+ All the generated headers are self-contained.
+
+** Header guards (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc)
+
+ In order to avoid collisions, the header guards are now
+ YY_<PREFIX>_<FILE>_INCLUDED, instead of merely <PREFIX>_<FILE>.
+ For instance the header generated from
+
+ %define api.prefix "calc"
+ %defines "lib/parse.h"
+
+ will use YY_CALC_LIB_PARSE_H_INCLUDED as guard.
+
+** Fix compiler warnings in the generated parser (yacc.c, glr.c)
+
+ The compilation of pure parsers (%define api.pure) can trigger GCC
+ warnings such as:
+
+ input.c: In function 'yyparse':
+ input.c:1503:12: warning: 'yylval' may be used uninitialized in this
+ function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
+ *++yyvsp = yylval;
+ ^
+
+ This is now fixed; pragmas to avoid these warnings are no longer needed.
+
+ Warnings from clang ("equality comparison with extraneous parentheses" and
+ "function declared 'noreturn' should not return") have also been
+ addressed.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.2 (2012-08-03) [stable]
** Bug fixes
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