Work around portability problems with Visual Age C compiler

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 Bison News
 ----------
 
-Changes in the next version (not yet released):
+Changes in version 2.1a:
 
-* Bison-generated C parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like
+* DJGPP support added.
+
+* %require "VERSION"
+  To specify that the grammar file depends on features implemented in
+  Bison version VERSION or higher.
+
+* lalr1.cc: The token and value types are now class members.
+  The tokens where defined as free form enums and cpp macros.  YYSTYPE
+  was defined as a free form union.  Both are now class members:
+  tokens are enumerations of the `yy::parser::token' struct, and the
+  semantic values have the `yy::parser::semantic_type' type.
+
+  If you do not want or can update to this scheme, the directive
+  `%define "global_tokens_and_yystype" "1"' triggers the global
+  definition of tokens and YYSTYPE.  This change is suitable both
+  for previous releases of Bison, and this one.
+
+  If you wish to update, then make sure older version of Bison will
+  fail using `%require "2.1a"'.
+
+Changes in version 2.1, 2005-09-16:
+
+* Bison-generated parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like
   "syntax error" into languages other than English.  The default
   language is still English.  For details, please see the new
-  Internationalization section of the Bison manual.  Thanks to Bruno
-  Haible for this new feature.
+  Internationalization section of the Bison manual.  Software
+  distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file.  Thanks to
+  Bruno Haible for this new feature.
 
-The following change was also in version 2.0a, 2005-05-22:
+* Wording in the Bison-generated parsers has been changed slightly to
+  simplify translation.  In particular, the message "memory exhausted"
+  has replaced "parser stack overflow", as the old message was not
+  always accurate for modern Bison-generated parsers.
 
-* When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated C parsers no longer
+* Destructors are now called when the parser aborts, for all symbols left
+  behind on the stack.  Also, the start symbol is now destroyed after a
+  successful parse.  In both cases, the behavior was formerly inconsistent.
+
+* When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated parsers no longer
   quote the literal strings associated with tokens.  For example, for
   a syntax error associated with '%token NUM "number"' they might
   print 'syntax error, unexpected number' instead of 'syntax error,
@@ -415,6 +445,8 @@ Changes in version 1.31, 2002-01-14:
   alloca is used only when compiled with GCC, to avoid portability
   problems as on AIX.
 
+* yyparse now returns 2 if memory is exhausted; formerly it dumped core.
+
 * When the generated parser lacks debugging code, YYDEBUG is now 0
   (as POSIX requires) instead of being undefined.