lalr1.cc: check (and fix) %initial-action exception safety

[bison.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 772a2d510ea1a031977ac003ede2c1bea0c73d84..c8a4d3129e6376f1aef533f40f05860c4bc80da7 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
-  Bugs in the test suite have been fixed.
+  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.
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   Incorrect definitions of YY_, issued by yacc.c when no parser header is
   generated, are removed.
 
-** Changes in the format of errors and exceptions output
+  All the generated headers are self-contained.
+
+** Changes in the format of error messages
 
   This used to be the format of many error reports:
 
@@ -26,6 +28,17 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
     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.
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.2 (2012-08-03) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
@@ -1883,7 +1896,7 @@ along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  LocalWords:  namespaces strerror const autoconfiguration Dconst Autoconf's FDL
  LocalWords:  Automake TMPDIR LESSEQ ylwrap endif yydebug YYTOKEN YYLSP ival hh
  LocalWords:  extern YYTOKENTYPE TOKENTYPE yytokentype tokentype STYPE lval pdf
- LocalWords:  lang yyoutput dvi html ps POSIX lvalp llocp
+ LocalWords:  lang yyoutput dvi html ps POSIX lvalp llocp calc yyo fval
 
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