X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/20daca063100830468400f58e7caa6635483401a..04877eec24484987b78387708e0a247b558b23cb:/NEWS?ds=inline diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 30b5e0af..63ad026b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,21 @@ Bison News ---------- -Changes in version 1.75e: +Changes in version 1.75e, 2002-12-24: + +* If the user does not define YYSTYPE as a macro, Bison now declares it + using typedef instead of defining it as a macro. POSIX requires this. + For consistency, YYLTYPE is also declared instead of defined. + +* %union directives can now have a tag before the `{', e.g., the + directive `%union foo {...}' now generates the C code + `typedef union foo { ... } YYSTYPE;'; this is for Yacc compatibility. + The default union tag is `YYSTYPE', for compatibility with Solaris 9 Yacc. + For consistency, YYLTYPE's struct tag is now `YYLTYPE' instead of `yyltype'. + +* `yystype' and `yyltype' are now obsolescent macros instead of being + typedefs or tags; they are no longer documented and will be + withdrawn in a future release. * References to the experimental %lex-param and %parse-param directives have been temporarily removed from the manual, since we don't want @@ -514,16 +528,17 @@ End: ----- -Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free +Software Foundation, Inc. -This file is part of GNU Autoconf. +This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler. -GNU Autoconf is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. -GNU Autoconf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.