X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/90dcd4156ccab3d704d9ff2771b9ce7791e3ffc4..68fff38a09c92653f386aab7853b07da9e2f1ebc:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bc761162..b49f2c84 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,6 +3,58 @@ Bison News * Changes in version 2.5.1 (????-??-??): +** Future changes: + + The next major release will drop support for K&R C. + +** yacc.c: YYBACKUP works as expected. + +** glr.c improvements: + +*** Location support is eliminated when not requested: + + GLR parsers used to include location-related code even when + locations were not requested, and therefore not even usable. + +*** __attribute__ is preserved: + + __attribute__ is no longer disabled when __STRICT_ANSI__ is defined + (i.e., when -std is passed to GCC). + +** lalr1.java: several fixes: + + The Java parser no longer throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if + the first token leads to a syntax error. Some minor clean ups. + +** C++11 compatibility: + + C and C++ parsers use nullptr instead of 0 when __cplusplus is + 201103L or higher. + +** C++ locations: + + The position and location constructors (and their initialize + methods) accept new arguments for line and column. Several issues + in the documentation were fixed. + +** liby is no longer asking for "rpl_fprintf" on some platforms. + +** Several improvements have been made to the manual: + + The layout for grammar excerpts was changed to a more compact + scheme. Named references are motivated. The description of the + automaton description file (*.output) is updated to the current + format. Incorrect index entries were fixed. Some other errors were + fixed. + +** Warnings during the build procedure have been eliminated. + +** Several portability problems in the test suite have been fixed: + + This includes warnings with some compilers, unexpected behavior of + tools such as diff, warning messages from the test suite itself, + etc. + * Changes in version 2.5 (2011-05-14): ** Grammar symbol names can now contain non-initial dashes: @@ -1516,7 +1568,7 @@ End: ----- -Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Bison, the GNU Parser Generator.