X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/3af4feb22fe0841aac471d54d428f3d080e6cf55..040984073a54b4c603172be3c3f44b908ea5deb9:/NEWS?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b80bdb1c..8593f27f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,56 +1,192 @@ Bison News ---------- -Changes in version 1.75c, 2002-11-25: +Changes in version 2.0b, 2005-07-24: -* "parse error" -> "syntax error" - Bison now uniformly uses the term "syntax error"; formerly, the code - and manual sometimes used the term "parse error" instead. POSIX - requires "syntax error" in diagnostics, and it was thought better to - be consistent. +* 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. -* "parsing stack overflow..." -> "parser stack overflow" - GLR parsers now report "parser stack overflow" as per the Bison manual. +* 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. -* GLR and inline - Users of Bison have to decide how they handle the portability of the - C keyword `inline'. +* 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. -Changes in version 1.75b, 2002-11-13: +* The yytname array now contains the same contents that it did in 2.0, + undoing an incompatible and undocumented change made in 2.0a. -* %destructor - It is now possible to reclaim the memory associated to symbols - discarded during error recovery. This feature is still experimental. +Changes in version 2.0a, 2005-05-22: -* Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like UCNs and - backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires. +* 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, + unexpected "number"'. -* --no-line works properly. +Changes in version 2.0, 2004-12-25: -* %error-verbose - This new directive is preferred over YYERROR_VERBOSE. +* Possibly-incompatible changes -* %lex-param, %parse-param - These new directives are preferred over PARSE_PARAM and LEX_PARAM. - In addition, they provide a means for yyerror to remain pure, and - to access to the current location. + - Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function + (when available) to extend the parser stack, due to widespread + problems in unchecked stack-overflow detection. You can "#define + YYSTACK_USE_ALLOCA 1" to require the use of alloca, but please read + the manual to determine safe values for YYMAXDEPTH in that case. - #defining yyerror to steal internal variables is strongly - discouraged. It is not guaranteed to work for ever. + - 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. -* #line - Bison now recognizes #line in its input, and forwards them. + - Semicolon changes: + . Stray semicolons are no longer allowed at the start of a grammar. + . Semicolons are now required after in-grammar declarations. -* #line - File names are properly escaped. E.g. foo\bar.y give #line 123 "foo\\bar.y". + - Unescaped newlines are no longer allowed in character constants or + string literals. They were never portable, and GCC 3.4.0 has + dropped support for them. Better diagnostics are now generated if + forget a closing quote. -Changes in version 1.75a, 2002-10-24: + - NUL bytes are no longer allowed in Bison string literals, unfortunately. + +* New features + + - GLR grammars now support locations. + + - New directive: %initial-action. + This directive allows the user to run arbitrary code (including + initializing @$) from yyparse before parsing starts. + + - A new directive "%expect-rr N" specifies the expected number of + reduce/reduce conflicts in GLR parsers. + + - %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers, e.g., `%token FOO 0x12d'. + This is a GNU extension. + + - The option `--report=lookahead' was changed to `--report=look-ahead'. + The old spelling still works, but is not documented and will be + removed. + + - Experimental %destructor support has been added to lalr1.cc. + + - New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the + yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance. + +* Bug fixes + + - For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors. + This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are + reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there + are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts). However, in future + versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that + these violations will become errors again. + + - Within Bison itself, numbers (e.g., goto numbers) are no longer + arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts. + + - Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires. + +Changes in version 1.875, 2003-01-01: + +* The documentation license has been upgraded to version 1.2 + of the GNU Free Documentation License. + +* syntax error processing + + - In Yacc-style parsers YYLLOC_DEFAULT is now used to compute error + locations too. This fixes bugs in error-location computation. + + - %destructor + It is now possible to reclaim the memory associated to symbols + discarded during error recovery. This feature is still experimental. + + - %error-verbose + This new directive is preferred over YYERROR_VERBOSE. + + - #defining yyerror to steal internal variables is discouraged. + It is not guaranteed to work forever. + +* POSIX conformance + + - Semicolons are once again optional at the end of grammar rules. + This reverts to the behavior of Bison 1.33 and earlier, and improves + compatibility with Yacc. + + - `parse error' -> `syntax error' + Bison now uniformly uses the term `syntax error'; formerly, the code + and manual sometimes used the term `parse error' instead. POSIX + requires `syntax error' in diagnostics, and it was thought better to + be consistent. + + - The documentation now emphasizes that yylex and yyerror must be + declared before use. C99 requires this. + + - Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like UCNs and + backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires. + + - File names are properly escaped in C output. E.g., foo\bar.y is + output as "foo\\bar.y". + + - Yacc command and library now available + The Bison distribution now installs a `yacc' command, as POSIX requires. + Also, Bison now installs a small library liby.a containing + implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions. + This library is normally not useful, but POSIX requires it. + + - Type clashes now generate warnings, not errors. + + - If the user does not define YYSTYPE as a macro, Bison now declares it + using typedef instead of defining it as a macro. + For consistency, YYLTYPE is also declared instead of defined. + +* Other compatibility issues + + - %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' not `yyltype'. + This is for compatibility with both Yacc and Bison 1.35. + + - `;' is output before the terminating `}' of an action, for + compatibility with Bison 1.35. + + - Bison now uses a Yacc-style format for conflict reports, e.g., + `conflicts: 2 shift/reduce, 1 reduce/reduce'. + + - `yystype' and `yyltype' are now obsolescent macros instead of being + typedefs or tags; they are no longer documented and are planned to be + withdrawn in a future release. + +* GLR parser notes + + - GLR and inline + Users of Bison have to decide how they handle the portability of the + C keyword `inline'. + + - `parsing stack overflow...' -> `parser stack overflow' + GLR parsers now report `parser stack overflow' as per the Bison manual. + +* Bison now warns if it detects conflicting outputs to the same file, + e.g., it generates a warning for `bison -d -o foo.h foo.y' since + that command outputs both code and header to foo.h. + +* #line in output files + - --no-line works properly. * Bison can no longer be built by a K&R C compiler; it requires C89 or later to be built. This change originally took place a few versions ago, but nobody noticed until we recently asked someone to try building Bison with a K&R C compiler. - + Changes in version 1.75, 2002-10-14: * Bison should now work on 64-bit hosts. @@ -81,7 +217,7 @@ Changes in version 1.75, 2002-10-14: was incorrectly rejected: $1 is defined in the second mid-rule action, and is equal to the $$ of the first mid-rule action. - + Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04: * GLR parsing @@ -128,7 +264,8 @@ 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. @@ -203,8 +340,8 @@ Changes in version 1.50, 2002-10-04: 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. Bison used to systematically output this information on top of @@ -485,21 +622,22 @@ End: ----- -Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 +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. 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