c: no longer require stdio.h when locations are enabled

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@@ -2,16 +2,60 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
+** Future changes
+
+  Bison will stop adding a semicolon at the end of the actions:
+
+    foo.y:2.22: warning: a ';' might be needed at the end of action code
+     exp: "num" { $$ = $1 }
+                          ^
+    foo.y:2.22:     future versions of Bison will not add the ';'
+
+  Like other GNU packages, Bison will start using some of the C99 features
+  for its own code, especially the definition of variables after statements.
+  The generated C parsers still aim at C90.
+
 ** Incompatible changes
 
 *** Obsolete features
 
-  Support for YYFAIL is removed (deprecated in Bison 2.4.2).
-  Support for yystype and yyltype (instead of YYSTYPE and YYLTYPE)
-  is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875).
-  Support for YYPARSE_PARAM is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875).
+  Support for YYFAIL is removed (deprecated in Bison 2.4.2): use YYERROR.
+
+  Support for yystype and yyltype is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875):
+  use YYSTYPE and YYLTYPE.
+
+  Support for YYLEX_PARAM and YYPARSE_PARAM is removed (deprecated in Bison
+  1.875): use %lex-param, %parse-param, or %param.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+*** The epilogue is no longer affected by internal #defines
 
-** Warnings
+  The glr.c skeleton uses defines such as #define yylval (yystackp->yyval) in
+  generated code.  These weren't properly undefined before the inclusion of
+  the user epilogue, so functions such as the following were butchered by the
+  preprocessor expansion:
+
+    int yylex (YYSTYPE *yylval);
+
+  This is has been fixed: yylval, yynerrs, yychar, and yylloc are now valid
+  identifiers for user-provided variables.
+
+*** stdio.h is no longer needed when locations are enabled (yacc.c)
+
+  Changes in Bison 2.7 introduced a dependency on FILE and fprintf when
+  locations are enabled.  This is fixed.
+
+** Diagnostics reported by Bison
+
+  Most of these features were contributed by Théophile Ranquet and Victor
+  Santet.
+
+*** Carets
+
+  Version 2.7 introduced caret errors, for a prettier output.  These are now
+  activated by default.  The old format can still be used by invoking Bison
+  with -fno-caret (or -fnone).
 
 *** Enhancements of the -Werror option
 
@@ -170,6 +214,8 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 ** Java skeleton improvements
 
+  Contributed by Paolo Bonzini.
+
   The constants for token names were moved to the Lexer interface.  Also, it
   is possible to add code to the parser's constructors using "%code init"
   and "%define init_throws".
@@ -195,6 +241,16 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   used by the scanner, or rejecting invalid combinations from a
   factory invoked by the user actions).
 
+** Renamed %define variables
+
+  The following variables have been renamed for consistency.  Backward
+  compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended.
+
+    lr.default-reductions      -> lr.default-reduction
+    lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state
+    namespace                  -> api.namespace
+    stype                      -> api.value.type
+
 ** Variable api.token.prefix
 
   The variable api.token.prefix changes the way tokens are identified in
@@ -211,15 +267,6 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   use these prefixed token names, although the grammar itself still
   uses the short names (as in the sample rule given above).
 
-** Renamed %define variables
-
-  The following variables have been renamed for consistency.  Backward
-  compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended.
-
-    lr.default-reductions      -> lr.default-reduction
-    lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state
-    namespace                  -> api.namespace
-
 ** Variable parse.error
 
   This variable controls the verbosity of error messages.  The use of the
@@ -228,6 +275,8 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 ** Semantic predicates
 
+  Contributed by Paul Hilfinger.
+
   The new, experimental, semantic-predicate feature allows actions of the
   form "%?{ BOOLEAN-EXPRESSION }", which cause syntax errors (as for
   YYERROR) if the expression evaluates to 0, and are evaluated immediately
@@ -2253,7 +2302,7 @@ Output file does not redefine const for C++.
 
 -----
 
-Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.