X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/eb520e4cc075716b07399f2711a298b82005bd75..7e7b77c1385cc93bdc7934c7c5e12bbe9e2528d3:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 272168f2..8593f27f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,17 +1,30 @@ Bison News ---------- -Changes in the next version (not yet released): +Changes in version 2.0b, 2005-07-24: -* Bison-generated C parsers now support the translation of diagnostics like +* 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. Thanks to Bruno - Haible for this new feature. + Internationalization section of the Bison manual. Software + distributors should also see the new PACKAGING file. Thanks to + Bruno Haible for this new feature. -The following change was also in version 2.0a, 2005-05-22: +* 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. -* When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated C parsers no longer +* 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. + +* The yytname array now contains the same contents that it did in 2.0, + undoing an incompatible and undocumented change made in 2.0a. + +Changes in version 2.0a, 2005-05-22: + +* 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,