Bison News
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+Changes in version 1.875e:
+
+* New directive: %initial-action.
+ This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including
+ initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts.
+
+* The option `--report=lookahead' was changed to `--report=look-ahead'.
+ The old spelling still works, but is not documented and will be
+ removed.
+
+* 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.
+
+* Goto numbers are no longer arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts.
+
Changes in version 1.875d, 2004-05-21:
* Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or
produces additional information:
- itemset
complete the core item sets with their closure
- - lookahead
- explicitly associate lookaheads to items
+ - lookahead [changed to `look-ahead' in 1.875e and later]
+ explicitly associate look-ahead tokens to items
- solved
describe shift/reduce conflicts solving.
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