X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/4c38b19e2650ca8b79b0d72a9995605ca12d9875..06e0e52ca4450a00113d5a157e791363bf57de83:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e3510938..28ba8338 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,9 +1,25 @@ Bison News ---------- -* Changes in version 2.5 (????-??-??): +* Changes in version 2.5.1 (????-??-??): -** Named References Support +** Some portability problems in the test suite have been fixed. + +** Minor improvements have been made to the manual. + +** YYBACKUP works as expected. + +* Changes in version 2.5 (2011-05-14): + +** Grammar symbol names can now contain non-initial dashes: + + Consistently with directives (such as %error-verbose) and with + %define variables (e.g. push-pull), grammar symbol names may contain + dashes in any position except the beginning. This is a GNU + extension over POSIX Yacc. Thus, use of this extension is reported + by -Wyacc and rejected in Yacc mode (--yacc). + +** Named references: Historically, Yacc and Bison have supported positional references ($n, $$) to allow access to symbol values from inside of semantic @@ -13,12 +29,12 @@ Bison News When no ambiguity is possible, original symbol names may be used as named references: - if_stmt : 'if' cond_expr 'then' then_stmt ';' + if_stmt : "if" cond_expr "then" then_stmt ';' { $if_stmt = mk_if_stmt($cond_expr, $then_stmt); } In the more common case, explicit names may be declared: - stmt[res] : 'if' expr[cond] 'then' stmt[then] 'else' stmt[else] ';' + stmt[res] : "if" expr[cond] "then" stmt[then] "else" stmt[else] ';' { $res = mk_if_stmt($cond, $then, $else); } Location information is also accessible using @name syntax. When @@ -28,13 +44,13 @@ Bison News These features are experimental in this version. More user feedback will help to stabilize them. -** IELR(1) and Canonical LR(1) Support +** IELR(1) and canonical LR(1): IELR(1) is a minimal LR(1) parser table generation algorithm. That is, given any context-free grammar, IELR(1) generates parser tables - with the full language recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with - nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1). This reduction in - parser states is often an order of magnitude. More importantly, + with the full language-recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with + nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1). This reduction + in parser states is often an order of magnitude. More importantly, because canonical LR(1)'s extra parser states may contain duplicate conflicts in the case of non-LR(1) grammars, the number of conflicts for IELR(1) is often an order of magnitude less as well. This can @@ -49,27 +65,27 @@ Bison News %define lr.type ielr %define lr.type canonical-lr - The default reduction optimization in the parser tables can also be - adjusted using `%define lr.default-reductions'. See the documentation - for `%define lr.type' and `%define lr.default-reductions' in the - section `Bison Declaration Summary' in the Bison manual for the - details. + The default-reduction optimization in the parser tables can also be + adjusted using `%define lr.default-reductions'. For details on both + of these features, see the new section `Tuning LR' in the Bison + manual. These features are experimental. More user feedback will help to stabilize them. -** LAC (lookahead correction) for syntax error handling: +** LAC (Lookahead Correction) for syntax error handling: Canonical LR, IELR, and LALR can suffer from a couple of problems upon encountering a syntax error. First, the parser might perform additional parser stack reductions before discovering the syntax - error. Such reductions perform user semantic actions that are + error. Such reductions can perform user semantic actions that are unexpected because they are based on an invalid token, and they cause error recovery to begin in a different syntactic context than the one in which the invalid token was encountered. Second, when - verbose error messages are enabled (with %error-verbose or `#define - YYERROR_VERBOSE'), the expected token list in the syntax error - message can both contain invalid tokens and omit valid tokens. + verbose error messages are enabled (with %error-verbose or the + obsolete `#define YYERROR_VERBOSE'), the expected token list in the + syntax error message can both contain invalid tokens and omit valid + tokens. The culprits for the above problems are %nonassoc, default reductions in inconsistent states, and parser state merging. Thus, @@ -77,11 +93,11 @@ Bison News %nonassoc is used or if default reductions are enabled for inconsistent states. - LAC is a new mechanism within the parsing algorithm that completely - solves these problems for canonical LR, IELR, and LALR without - sacrificing %nonassoc, default reductions, or state mering. When - LAC is in use, canonical LR and IELR behave exactly the same for - both syntactically acceptable and syntactically unacceptable input. + LAC is a new mechanism within the parsing algorithm that solves + these problems for canonical LR, IELR, and LALR without sacrificing + %nonassoc, default reductions, or state merging. When LAC is in + use, canonical LR and IELR behave almost exactly the same for both + syntactically acceptable and syntactically unacceptable input. While LALR still does not support the full language-recognition power of canonical LR and IELR, LAC at least enables LALR's syntax error handling to correctly reflect LALR's language-recognition @@ -92,21 +108,15 @@ Bison News %define parse.lac full - See the documentation for `%define parse.lac' in the section `Bison - Declaration Summary' in the Bison manual for additional details. + See the new section `LAC' in the Bison manual for additional + details including a few caveats. LAC is an experimental feature. More user feedback will help to stabilize it. -** Unrecognized %code qualifiers are now an error not a warning. - -** %define improvements. +** %define improvements: -*** Unrecognized variables are now an error not a warning. - -*** Multiple invocations for any variable is now an error not a warning. - -*** Can now be invoked via the command line. +*** Can now be invoked via the command line: Each of these command-line options @@ -123,9 +133,9 @@ Bison News except that the manner in which Bison processes multiple definitions for the same NAME differs. Most importantly, -F and --force-define quietly override %define, but -D and --define do not. For further - details, see the section "Bison Options" in the Bison manual. + details, see the section `Bison Options' in the Bison manual. -*** Variables renamed. +*** Variables renamed: The following %define variables @@ -140,7 +150,7 @@ Bison News The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely for backward compatibility. -*** Values no longer need to be quoted in grammar file. +*** Values no longer need to be quoted in the grammar file: If a %define value is an identifier, it no longer needs to be placed within quotations marks. For example, @@ -151,15 +161,75 @@ Bison News %define api.push-pull push -** Symbol names. +*** Unrecognized variables are now errors not warnings. + +*** Multiple invocations for any variable is now an error not a warning. + +** Unrecognized %code qualifiers are now errors not warnings. + +** Character literals not of length one: + + Previously, Bison quietly converted all character literals to length + one. For example, without warning, Bison interpreted the operators in + the following grammar to be the same token: + + exp: exp '++' + | exp '+' exp + ; + + Bison now warns when a character literal is not of length one. In + some future release, Bison will start reporting an error instead. + +** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions: + + Previously for deterministic parsers in C, if a user semantic action + altered yychar, the parser in some cases used the old yychar value to + determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax + error or upon parser return. This bug has been fixed. + +** C++ parsers use YYRHSLOC: + + Similarly to the C parsers, the C++ parsers now define the YYRHSLOC + macro and use it in the default YYLLOC_DEFAULT. You are encouraged + to use it. If, for instance, your location structure has `first' + and `last' members, instead of + + # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \ + do \ + if (N) \ + { \ + (Current).first = (Rhs)[1].location.first; \ + (Current).last = (Rhs)[N].location.last; \ + } \ + else \ + { \ + (Current).first = (Current).last = (Rhs)[0].location.last; \ + } \ + while (false) + + use: + + # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \ + do \ + if (N) \ + { \ + (Current).first = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 1).first; \ + (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, N).last; \ + } \ + else \ + { \ + (Current).first = (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 0).last; \ + } \ + while (false) + +** YYLLOC_DEFAULT in C++: - Consistently with directives (such as %error-verbose) and variables - (e.g. push-pull), symbol names may include dashes in any position, - similarly to periods and underscores. This is GNU extension over - POSIX Yacc whose use is reported by -Wyacc, and rejected in Yacc - mode (--yacc). + The default implementation of YYLLOC_DEFAULT used to be issued in + the header file. It is now output in the implementation file, after + the user %code sections so that its #ifndef guard does not try to + override the user's YYLLOC_DEFAULT if provided. -** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it. +** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it: YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison. More recently, it was @@ -170,7 +240,7 @@ Bison News discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry. -** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action. +** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action: Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for reductions when the output language defaulted to C (specifically, when @@ -191,33 +261,20 @@ Bison News about a missing semicolon where it did not before. Future releases of Bison will cease to append semicolons entirely. -** Character literals not of length one. - - Previously, Bison quietly converted all character literals to length - one. For example, without warning, Bison interpreted the operators in - the following grammar to be the same token: - - exp: exp '++' - | exp '+' exp - ; - - Bison now warns when a character literal is not of length one. In - some future release, Bison will report an error instead. - ** Verbose syntax error message fixes: - When %error-verbose or `#define YYERROR_VERBOSE' is specified, - syntax error messages produced by the generated parser include the - unexpected token as well as a list of expected tokens. The effect - of %nonassoc on these verbose messages has been corrected in two - ways, but a complete fix requires LAC, described above: + When %error-verbose or the obsolete `#define YYERROR_VERBOSE' is + specified, syntax error messages produced by the generated parser + include the unexpected token as well as a list of expected tokens. + The effect of %nonassoc on these verbose messages has been corrected + in two ways, but a more complete fix requires LAC, described above: *** When %nonassoc is used, there can exist parser states that accept no tokens, and so the parser does not always require a lookahead token in order to detect a syntax error. Because no unexpected token or expected tokens can then be reported, the verbose syntax error message described above is suppressed, and the parser instead - reports the simpler message, "syntax error". Previously, this + reports the simpler message, `syntax error'. Previously, this suppression was sometimes erroneously triggered by %nonassoc when a lookahead was actually required. Now verbose messages are suppressed only when all previous lookaheads have already been @@ -242,54 +299,67 @@ Bison News canonical LR. However, LAC is still experimental and is disabled by default. -** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions. +** Java skeleton fixes: - Previously for deterministic parsers in C, if a user semantic action - altered yychar, the parser in some cases used the old yychar value to - determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax - error or upon parser return. This bug has been fixed. +*** A location handling bug has been fixed. -** C++ parsers use YYRHSLOC +*** The top element of each of the value stack and location stack is now + cleared when popped so that it can be garbage collected. - Similarly to the C parsers, the C++ parsers now define the YYRHSLOC - macro and use it in the default YYLLOC_DEFAULT. You are encouraged - to use it. If, for instance, your location structure has "first" - and "last" members, instead of +*** Parser traces now print the top element of the stack. - # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \ - do \ - if (N) \ - { \ - (Current).first = (Rhs)[1].location.first; \ - (Current).last = (Rhs)[N].location.last; \ - } \ - else \ - { \ - (Current).first = (Current).last = (Rhs)[0].location.last; \ - } \ - while (false) +** -W/--warnings fixes: - use: +*** Bison now properly recognizes the `no-' versions of categories: - # define YYLLOC_DEFAULT(Current, Rhs, N) \ - do \ - if (N) \ - { \ - (Current).first = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 1).first; \ - (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, N).last; \ - } \ - else \ - { \ - (Current).first = (Current).last = YYRHSLOC (Rhs, 0).last; \ - } \ - while (false) + For example, given the following command line, Bison now enables all + warnings except warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc: -** YYLLOC_DEFAULT in C++ + bison -Wall,no-yacc gram.y - The default implementation of YYLLOC_DEFAULT used to be issued in - the header file. It is now output in the implementation file, after - the user %code sections so that its #ifndef guard does not try to - override the user's YYLLOC_DEFAULT if provided. +*** Bison now treats S/R and R/R conflicts like other warnings: + + Previously, conflict reports were independent of Bison's normal + warning system. Now, Bison recognizes the warning categories + `conflicts-sr' and `conflicts-rr'. This change has important + consequences for the -W and --warnings command-line options. For + example: + + bison -Wno-conflicts-sr gram.y # S/R conflicts not reported + bison -Wno-conflicts-rr gram.y # R/R conflicts not reported + bison -Wnone gram.y # no conflicts are reported + bison -Werror gram.y # any conflict is an error + + However, as before, if the %expect or %expect-rr directive is + specified, an unexpected number of conflicts is an error, and an + expected number of conflicts is not reported, so -W and --warning + then have no effect on the conflict report. + +*** The `none' category no longer disables a preceding `error': + + For example, for the following command line, Bison now reports + errors instead of warnings for incompatibilities with POSIX Yacc: + + bison -Werror,none,yacc gram.y + +*** The `none' category now disables all Bison warnings: + + Previously, the `none' category disabled only Bison warnings for + which there existed a specific -W/--warning category. However, + given the following command line, Bison is now guaranteed to + suppress all warnings: + + bison -Wnone gram.y + +** Precedence directives can now assign token number 0: + + Since Bison 2.3b, which restored the ability of precedence + directives to assign token numbers, doing so for token number 0 has + produced an assertion failure. For example: + + %left END 0 + + This bug has been fixed. * Changes in version 2.4.3 (2010-08-05): @@ -1452,9 +1522,7 @@ End: ----- -Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, -2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, -Inc. +Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.