From: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:46:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * doc/bison.texinfo: Document ability to have multiple
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* doc/bison.texinfo: Document ability to have multiple
prologue sections.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index de3b1bf3..0422816f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-06-19  Zack Weinberg  <zack@codesourcery.com>
+
+	* doc/bison.texinfo: Document ability to have multiple
+	prologue sections.
+
 2002-06-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
 
 	* src/files.c (compute_base_names): When computing the output file
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 0c5b344a..1de53f07 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Tom Tromey              tromey@cygnus.com
 Wayne Green             wayne@infosavvy.com
 Wolfram Wagner          ww@mpi-sb.mpg.de
 Wwp                     subscript@free.fr
+Zack Weinberg           zack@codesourcery.com
 
 Many people are not named here because we lost track of them.  We
 thank them!  Please, help us keeping this list up to date.
diff --git a/doc/bison.texinfo b/doc/bison.texinfo
index be4d69e2..0d3ce7d5 100644
--- a/doc/bison.texinfo
+++ b/doc/bison.texinfo
@@ -2055,6 +2055,33 @@ that they precede the definition of @code{yyparse}.  You can use
 need any C declarations, you may omit the @samp{%@{} and @samp{%@}}
 delimiters that bracket this section.
 
+You may have more than one @var{Prologue} section, intermixed with the
+@var{Bison declarations}.  This allows you to have C and Bison
+declarations that refer to each other.  For example, the @code{%union}
+declaration may use types defined in a header file, and you may wish to
+prototype functions that take arguments of type @code{YYSTYPE}.  This
+can be done with two @var{Prologue} blocks, one before and one after the
+@code{%union} declaration.
+
+@smallexample
+%@{
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include "ptypes.h"
+%@}
+
+%union @{
+  long n;
+  tree t;  /* @r{@code{tree} is defined in @file{ptypes.h}.} */
+@}
+
+%@{
+static void yyprint(FILE *, int, YYSTYPE);
+#define YYPRINT(F, N, L) yyprint(F, N, L)
+%@}
+
+@dots{}
+@end smallexample
+
 @node Bison Declarations
 @subsection The Bison Declarations Section
 @cindex Bison declarations (introduction)