tests: fix maintainer-xml-check for recent changes.

[bison.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7553a8614ca416b21955d37434d8377cad2fce87..91426175b5342007a3caa744c9f76681e89403d0 100644 (file)
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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -130,6 +130,12 @@ Bison News
   discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL
   being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry.
 
   discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL
   being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry.
 

+** `%prec IDENTIFIER' requires IDENTIFIER to be defined separately.
+
+  As promised in Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, it is now an error if a token
+  that appears after a %prec directive is not defined by %token, %left,
+  %right, or %nonassoc.  This is required by POSIX.
+

 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
 
   Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for
 ** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
 
   Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for


@@ -182,6 +188,22 @@ Bison News
 
 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (????-??-??):
 
 
 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (????-??-??):
 

+** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks
+   in the test suite on some versions of at least Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
+   RHEL4, and Tru64 have been fixed.  As part of those fixes, fatal
+   Bison errors no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
+   affected platforms.
+
+** `%prec IDENTIFIER' requires IDENTIFIER to be defined separately.
+
+  POSIX specifies that an error be reported for any identifier that does
+  not appear on the LHS of a grammar rule and that is not defined by
+  %token, %left, %right, or %nonassoc.  Bison 2.3b and later lost this
+  error report for the case when an identifier appears only after a
+  %prec directive.  It is now restored.  However, for backward
+  compatibility with recent Bison releases, it is only a warning for
+  now.  In Bison 2.5 and later, it will return to being an error.
+

 ** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.
 
 ** Warnings from gcc's -Wundef option about undefined YYENABLE_NLS,
 ** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.
 
 ** Warnings from gcc's -Wundef option about undefined YYENABLE_NLS,


@@ -1303,8 +1325,7 @@ End:
 
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-Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 
 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.
 
 
 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.