X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/b7226022b07fac385defbf2297892d8c3dc3cd18..c6b1772473d0a26faa22464df98718d0d0ae2e2e:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0f2446bc..c8cab5e0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,246 @@ GNU Bison NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** Incompatible changes + +*** Obsolete features + + Support for YYFAIL is removed (deprecated in Bison 2.4.2). + Support for yystype and yyltype (instead of YYSTYPE and YYLTYPE) + is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875). + Support for YYPARSE_PARAM is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875). + +** Warnings + +*** Enhancements of the -Werror option + + The -Werror=CATEGORY option is now recognized, and will treat specified + warnings as errors. The warnings need not have been explicitly activated + using the -W option, this is similar to what GCC 4.7 does. + + For example, given the following command line, Bison will treat both + warnings related to POSIX Yacc incompatibilities and S/R conflicts as + errors (and only those): + + $ bison -Werror=yacc,error=conflicts-sr input.y + + If no categories are specified, -Werror will make all active warnings into + errors. For example, the following line does the same the previous example: + + $ bison -Werror -Wnone -Wyacc -Wconflicts-sr input.y + + (By default -Wconflicts-sr,conflicts-rr,deprecated,other is enabled.) + + Note that the categories in this -Werror option may not be prefixed with + "no-". However, -Wno-error[=CATEGORY] is valid. + + Note that -y enables -Werror=yacc. Therefore it is now possible to require + Yacc-like behavior (e.g., always generate y.tab.c), but to report + incompatibilities as warnings: "-y -Wno-error=yacc". + +*** The display of warnings is now richer + + The option that controls a given warning is now displayed: + + foo.y:4.6: warning: type clash on default action: != [-Wother] + + In the case of warnings treated as errors, the prefix is changed from + "warning: " to "error: ", and the suffix is displayed, in a manner similar + to GCC, as [-Werror=CATEGORY]. + + For instance, where the previous version of Bison would report (and exit + with failure): + + bison: warnings being treated as errors + input.y:1.1: warning: stray ',' treated as white space + + it now reports: + + input.y:1.1: error: stray ',' treated as white space [-Werror=other] + +*** Deprecated constructs + + The new 'deprecated' warning category flags obsolete constructs whose + support will be discontinued. It is enabled by default. These warnings + used to be reported as 'other' warnings. + +*** Useless semantic types + + Bison now warns about useless (uninhabited) semantic types. Since + semantic types are not declared to Bison (they are defined in the opaque + %union structure), it is %printer/%destructor directives about useless + types that trigger the warning: + + %token term + %type nterm + %printer {} + %destructor {} + %% + nterm: term { $$ = $1; }; + + 3.28-34: warning: type is used, but is not associated to any symbol + 4.28-34: warning: type is used, but is not associated to any symbol + +*** Undefined but unused symbols + + Bison used to raise an error for undefined symbols that are not used in + the grammar. This is now only a warning. + + %printer {} symbol1 + %destructor {} symbol2 + %type symbol3 + %% + exp: "a"; + +*** Useless destructors or printers + + Bison now warns about useless destructors or printers. In the following + example, the printer for , and the destructor for are + useless: all symbols of (token1) already have a printer, and all + symbols of type (token2) already have a destructor. + + %token token1 + token2 + token3 + token4 + %printer {} token1 + %destructor {} token2 + +*** Conflicts + + The warnings and error messages about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce + conflicts have been normalized. For instance on the following foo.y file: + + %glr-parser + %% + exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0'; + + compare the previous version of bison: + + $ bison foo.y + foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce + $ bison -Werror foo.y + bison: warnings being treated as errors + foo.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce + + with the new behavior: + + $ bison foo.y + foo.y: warning: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Wconflicts-sr] + foo.y: warning: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Wconflicts-rr] + $ bison -Werror foo.y + foo.y: error: 1 shift/reduce conflict [-Werror=conflicts-sr] + foo.y: error: 2 reduce/reduce conflicts [-Werror=conflicts-rr] + + When %expect or %expect-rr is used, such as with bar.y: + + %expect 0 + %glr-parser + %% + exp: exp '+' exp | '0' | '0'; + + Former behavior: + + $ bison bar.y + bar.y: conflicts: 1 shift/reduce, 2 reduce/reduce + bar.y: expected 0 shift/reduce conflicts + bar.y: expected 0 reduce/reduce conflicts + + New one: + + $ bison bar.y + bar.y: error: shift/reduce conflicts: 1 found, 0 expected + bar.y: error: reduce/reduce conflicts: 2 found, 0 expected + +** Additional yylex/yyparse arguments + + The new directive %param declares additional arguments to both yylex and + yyparse. The %lex-param, %parse-param, and %param directives support one + or more arguments. Instead of + + %lex-param {arg1_type *arg1} + %lex-param {arg2_type *arg2} + %parse-param {arg1_type *arg1} + %parse-param {arg2_type *arg2} + + one may now declare + + %param {arg1_type *arg1} {arg2_type *arg2} + +** Java skeleton improvements + + The constants for token names were moved to the Lexer interface. Also, it + is possible to add code to the parser's constructors using "%code init" + and "%define init_throws". + +** C++ skeletons improvements + +*** The parser header is no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc) + + Using %defines is now optional. Without it, the needed support classes + are defined in the generated parser, instead of additional files (such as + location.hh, position.hh and stack.hh). + +*** Locations are no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc) + + Both lalr1.cc and glr.cc no longer require %location. + +*** syntax_error exception (lalr1.cc) + + The C++ parser features a syntax_error exception, which can be + thrown from the scanner or from user rules to raise syntax errors. + This facilitates reporting errors caught in sub-functions (e.g., + rejecting too large integral literals from a conversion function + used by the scanner, or rejecting invalid combinations from a + factory invoked by the user actions). + +** Variable api.token.prefix + + The variable api.token.prefix changes the way tokens are identified in + the generated files. This is especially useful to avoid collisions + with identifiers in the target language. For instance + + %token FILE for ERROR + %define api.token.prefix "TOK_" + %% + start: FILE for ERROR; + + will generate the definition of the symbols TOK_FILE, TOK_for, and + TOK_ERROR in the generated sources. In particular, the scanner must + use these prefixed token names, although the grammar itself still + uses the short names (as in the sample rule given above). + +** Renamed %define variables + + The following variables have been renamed for consistency. Backward + compatibility is ensured, but upgrading is recommended. + + lr.default-reductions -> lr.default-reduction + lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state + namespace -> api.namespace + +** Variable parse.error + + This variable controls the verbosity of error messages. The use of the + %error-verbose directive is deprecated in favor of "%define parse.error + verbose". + +** Semantic predicates + + The new, experimental, semantic-predicate feature allows actions of the + form "%?{ BOOLEAN-EXPRESSION }", which cause syntax errors (as for + YYERROR) if the expression evaluates to 0, and are evaluated immediately + in GLR parsers, rather than being deferred. The result is that they allow + the programmer to prune possible parses based on the values of run-time + expressions. + +** The directive %expect-rr is now an error in non GLR mode + + It used to be an error only if used in non GLR mode, _and_ if there are + reduce/reduce conflicts. + +* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] + ** Changes in the format of error messages This used to be the format of many error reports: @@ -42,7 +282,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS position_type are deprecated in favor of api.location.type and api.position.type. -** Graphviz improvements +** Graph improvements in DOT and XSLT The graphical presentation of the states is more readable: their shape is now rectangular, the state number is clearly displayed, and the items are @@ -51,6 +291,45 @@ GNU Bison NEWS The reductions are now explicitly represented as transitions to other diamond shaped nodes. + These changes are present in both --graph output and xml2dot.xsl XSLT + processing, with minor (documented) differences. + + Two nodes were added to the documentation: Xml and Graphviz. + +* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] + +** Bug fixes + + Warnings about uninitialized yylloc in yyparse have been fixed. + +** Documentation + + The sections about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts resolution + have been fixed and extended. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.5 (2012-11-07) [stable] + + We consider compiler warnings about Bison generated parsers to be bugs. + Rather than working around them in your own project, please consider + reporting them to us. + +** Bug fixes + + Warnings about uninitialized yylval and/or yylloc for push parsers with a + pure interface have been fixed for GCC 4.0 up to 4.8, and Clang 2.9 to + 3.2. + + Other issues in the test suite have been addressed. + + Nul characters are correctly displayed in error messages. + + When possible, yylloc is correctly initialized before calling yylex. It + is no longer necessary to initialize it in the %initial-action. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.4 (2012-10-23) [stable] + + Bison 2.6.3's --version was incorrect. This release fixes this issue. + * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.3 (2012-10-22) [stable] ** Bug fixes @@ -113,7 +392,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.1 (2012-07-30) [stable] - Bison no longer executes user-specified M4 code when processing a grammar. + Bison no longer executes user-specified M4 code when processing a grammar. ** Future Changes @@ -151,7 +430,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2012-07-19) [stable] -** Future Changes +** Future changes The next major release of Bison will drop support for the following deprecated features. Please report disagreements to bug-bison@gnu.org. @@ -1952,8 +2231,8 @@ along with this program. If not, see . 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