X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/4d019228a484920fe08b23a7a9f006660a039a1e..c95f2d781ff015295559f273075a4a930866d605:/NEWS?ds=inline diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c094c707..89304e06 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,73 @@ Bison News ---------- +Changes in version 1.28a: + +* Russian translation added. + +* NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome. + +* Added the old Bison reference card. + +* Added `--locations' and `%locations'. + +Changes in version 1.28: + +* Should compile better now with K&R compilers. + +* Added NLS. + +* Fixed a problem with escaping the double quote character. + +* There is now a FAQ. + +Changes in version 1.27: + +* The make rule which prevented bison.simple from being created on + some systems has been fixed. + +Changes in version 1.26: + +* Bison now uses automake. + +* New mailing lists: and . + +* Token numbers now start at 257 as previously documented, not 258. + +* Bison honors the TMPDIR environment variable. + +* A couple of buffer overruns have been fixed. + +* Problems when closing files should now be reported. + +* Generated parsers should now work even on operating systems which do + not provide alloca(). + +Changes in version 1.25: + +* Errors in the input grammar are not fatal; Bison keeps reading +the grammar file, and reports all the errors found in it. + +* Tokens can now be specified as multiple-character strings: for +example, you could use "<=" for a token which looks like <=, instead +of chosing a name like LESSEQ. + +* The %token_table declaration says to write a table of tokens (names +and numbers) into the parser file. The yylex function can use this +table to recognize multiple-character string tokens, or for other +purposes. + +* The %no_lines declaration says not to generate any #line preprocessor +directives in the parser file. + +* The %raw declaration says to use internal Bison token numbers, not +Yacc-compatible token numbers, when token names are defined as macros. + +* The --no-parser option produces the parser tables without including +the parser engine; a project can now use its own parser engine. +The actions go into a separate file called NAME.act, in the form of +a switch statement body. + Changes in version 1.23: The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be @@ -8,24 +75,13 @@ passed into yyparse. The argument should have type void *. It should actually point to an object. Grammar actions can access the variable by casting it to the proper pointer type. -Error in printing reductions fixed. - Line numbers in output file corrected. - -Configuration and compilation problems fixed. Changes in version 1.22: --help option added. - -Configuration and compilation problems fixed. - -Changes in version 1.21: - -Configuration and compilation problems fixed. Changes in version 1.20: Output file does not redefine const for C++. -Configuration and compilation problems fixed.