c++: use nullptr for C++11.

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 Bison News
 ----------
 
-* Changes in version 2.5 (????-??-??):
+* Changes in version 2.5.1 (????-??-??):
+
+** Several portability problems in the test suite have been fixed:
+
+  This includes warnings with some compilers, unexpected behavior of
+  tools such as diff, warning messages from the test suite itself,
+  etc.
+
+  __attribute__ is not longer disabled when __STRICT_ANSI__ is defined
+  (i.e., when -std is passed to GCC).
+
+** Warnings during the build procedure have been eliminated.
+
+** Many minor improvements have been made to the manual:
+
+  The layout for grammar has changed to a more compact scheme.  Named
+  references are motivated.  The description of the automaton
+  description file is updated.
+
+** YYBACKUP works as expected.
+
+** liby is no longer asking for "rpl_fprintf" on some platforms.
+
+** Several Java fixes:
+
+  The Java parser no longer throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if
+  the first token leads to a syntax error.  Some minor clean ups.
+
+** C++11 compatibility:
+
+  C and C++ parsers use nullptr instead of 0 when __cplusplus is
+  201103L or higher.
+
+* Changes in version 2.5 (2011-05-14):
 
 ** Grammar symbol names can now contain non-initial dashes:
 
@@ -40,7 +73,7 @@ Bison News
 
   IELR(1) is a minimal LR(1) parser table generation algorithm.  That
   is, given any context-free grammar, IELR(1) generates parser tables
-  with the full language recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
+  with the full language-recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
   nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1).  This reduction
   in parser states is often an order of magnitude.  More importantly,
   because canonical LR(1)'s extra parser states may contain duplicate
@@ -142,7 +175,7 @@ Bison News
   The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely
   for backward compatibility.
 
-*** Values no longer need to be quoted in grammar file:
+*** Values no longer need to be quoted in the grammar file:
 
   If a %define value is an identifier, it no longer needs to be placed
   within quotations marks.  For example,
@@ -334,7 +367,7 @@ Bison News
 
     bison -Werror,none,yacc gram.y
 
-*** The `none' category now disables all Bison warnings.
+*** The `none' category now disables all Bison warnings:
 
   Previously, the `none' category disabled only Bison warnings for
   which there existed a specific -W/--warning category.  However,
@@ -343,6 +376,16 @@ Bison News
 
     bison -Wnone gram.y
 
+** Precedence directives can now assign token number 0:
+
+  Since Bison 2.3b, which restored the ability of precedence
+  directives to assign token numbers, doing so for token number 0 has
+  produced an assertion failure.  For example:
+
+    %left END 0
+
+  This bug has been fixed.
+
 * Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05):
 
 ** Bison now obeys -Werror and --warnings=error for warnings about
@@ -1504,7 +1547,7 @@ End:
 
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-Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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