Bison News
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-Changes in version 1.875f:
+Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25:
-* Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
- (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
- problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection. You can "#define
- YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to use alloca anyway, but please read the
- manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.
+* Possibly-incompatible changes
-Changes in version 1.875e, 2004-12-10:
+ - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function
+ (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread
+ problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection. You can "#define
+ YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read
+ the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case.
-* New directive: %initial-action.
- This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
- initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
+ - Error token location.
+ During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
+ to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
+ the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
+ recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
-* The option `--report=lookahead' was changed to `--report=look-ahead'.
- The old spelling still works, but is not documented and will be
- removed.
+ - Semicolon changes:
+ . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
+ . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
-* Error token location.
- During error recovery, the location of the syntax error is updated
- to cover the whole sequence covered by the error token: it includes
- the shifted symbols thrown away during the first part of the error
- recovery, and the lookahead rejected during the second part.
+ - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
+ string literals. They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
+ dropped support for them. Better diagnostics are now generated if
+ forget a closing quote.
-* Goto numbers are no longer arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
+ - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
-Changes in version 1.875d, 2004-05-21:
+* New features
-* Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
- string literals. They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has
- dropped support for them. Better diagnostics are now generated if
- forget a closing quote.
+ - GLR grammars now support locations.
-* NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately.
+ - New directive: %initial-action.
+ This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
+ initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
-* %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., `%token FOO 0x12d'.
- This is a GNU extension.
+ - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
+ reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.
-* A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of
- reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers.
+ - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., `%token FOO 0x12d'.
+ This is a GNU extension.
-* Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
+ - The option `--report=lookahead' was changed to `--report=look-ahead'.
+ The old spelling still works, but is not documented and will be
+ removed.
-Changes in version 1.875c, 2003-08-25:
+ - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc.
- (Just bug fixes.)
+ - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
+ yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
-Changes in version 1.875b, 2003-06-17:
+* Bug fixes
-* GLR grammars now support locations.
+ - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
+ This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
+ reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
+ are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts). However, in future
+ versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
+ these violations will become errors again.
-* Semicolon changes:
- - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
- - Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar.
- - Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations.
-
-Changes in version 1.875a, 2003-02-01:
+ - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer
+ arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
-* For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
- This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
- reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
- are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts). However, in future
- versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
- these violations will become errors again.
-
-* New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
- yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.
+ - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
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