From: Joel E. Denny <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:35:41 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: * NEWS (2.5): New section.  Describe new -D/--define feature.
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* NEWS (2.5): New section.  Describe new -D/--define feature.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2d5aa44b..76146450 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-04-06  Joel E. Denny  <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu>
+
+	* NEWS (2.5): New section.  Describe new -D/--define feature.
+
 2009-04-06  Akim Demaille  <demaille@gostai.com>
 
 	Regen.
@@ -40,7 +44,7 @@
 
 	muscle: factor the handling of obsolete of obsolete directives.
 	Suggested by Joel E. Denny.
-	
+
 	* src/muscle_tab.h, src/muscle_tab.c (muscle_percent_define_ensure):
 	New, extracted from...
 	* src/parse-gram.y (prologue_declaration: pure-parser): here.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2de1a5de..b436896f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,22 @@ Bison News
   Also, it is possible to add code to the parser's constructors using
   "%code init" and "%define init_throws".
 
+* Changes in version 2.5 (????-??-??):
+
+** %define can now be invoked via the command line.
+
+  Each of these bison command-line options
+
+    -D NAME=VALUE
+    --define=NAME=VALUE
+
+  is equivalent to this grammar file declaration
+
+    %define NAME "VALUE"
+
+  for any NAME and VALUE.  Omitting `=VALUE' on the command line is
+  equivalent to omitting `"VALUE"' in the declaration.
+
 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (????-??-??):
 
 * Changes in version 2.4.1 (2008-12-11):