Document that undefined %prec identifier warnings will remain.

* NEWS (2.4.3): Here.
(2.4.2): Here.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 18b09465a3bb2619f7c393cb8922f3f0c6141020..a1dbfbf62be9de8db0a5af4b0603d733559a7549 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-04-30  Joel E. Denny  <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>
+
+       Document that undefined %prec identifier warnings will remain.
+       * NEWS (2.4.3): Here.
+       (2.4.2): Here.
+
 2010-04-25  Joel E. Denny  <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>
 
        build: don't require src/bison during bootstrap.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ceee3d997ef00f502e0aadbd7fd8753b79f0cc55..66622ace128d6b288a5859e3cf78fe5b75e0f3ab 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ Bison News
 ** Failures in the test suite for some versions of Sun Studio C++ have
    been fixed.
 
+** Contrary to Bison 2.4.2's NEWS entry, it has been decided that
+   warnings about undefined %prec identifiers will not be converted to
+   errors in Bison 2.5.  They will remain warnings, which should be
+   sufficient for POSIX while avoiding backward compatibility issues.
+
 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (2010-03-20):
 
 ** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks
@@ -28,6 +33,8 @@ Bison News
   %prec directive.  It is now restored.  However, for backward
   compatibility with recent Bison releases, it is only a warning for
   now.  In Bison 2.5 and later, it will return to being an error.
+  [Between the 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 releases, it was decided that this
+  warning will not be converted to an error in Bison 2.5.]
 
 ** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.