X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/18d192f0eae3f0ed313100d825e46bf772b0b643..76dcf299b7fe8d38f6125c7af8791bd1c909fa65:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 36c20426..f223eb97 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,14 +1,23 @@ Bison News ---------- -Changes in version 1.875e: +Changes in version 1.875e, 2004-12-10: * 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. + 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: @@ -222,7 +231,8 @@ Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04: allowed some non-error action other than a default reduction on the error token. The new behavior has long been the documented behavior, and has long been required by POSIX. For more details, please see - . + Paul Eggert, "Reductions during Bison error handling" (2002-05-20) + . * Traces Popped tokens and nonterminals are now reported.