X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/009ce67dbe7f7d890a1b17e6aed59806a60c94be..1a05945136faf21ac5e3a07cfcdee8ee2e8ab6ae:/NEWS?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 05a472fa..52064e7f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,13 +1,23 @@ Bison News ---------- -Changes in version 2.0a, 2005-05-22: +Changes in the next version (not yet released): -* Bison-generated C parsers use the _ macro to translate strings from - English to the user's language, e.g., _("syntax error"). By default, - _ is defined to be a no-op macro so the strings are not translated. +* 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. Software + distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file. Thanks to + Bruno Haible for this new feature. -* When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated C parsers no longer +* 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. + +The following change was also in version 2.0a, 2005-05-22: + +* 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,