FYI: TODO/NEWS update

[Akim Demaille]

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/bison/bison/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -u -r1.36 NEWS
--- NEWS 22 Apr 2002 08:22:38 -0000 1.36
+++ NEWS 22 Apr 2002 12:35:11 -0000
@@ -56,6 +56,59 @@
   or
      %token YYEOF 0 "end of file"
 
+Changes in version 1.35, 2002-03-25:
+
+* C Skeleton
+  Some projects use Bison's C parser with C++ compilers, and define
+  YYSTYPE as a class.  The recent adjustment of C parsers for data
+  alignment and 64 bit architectures made this impossible.
+
+  Because for the time being no real solution for C++ parser
+  generation exists, kludges were implemented in the parser to
+  maintain this use.  In the future, when Bison has C++ parsers, this
+  kludge will be disabled.
+
+  This kludge also addresses some C++ problems when the stack was
+  extended.
+
+
+Changes in version 1.34, 2002-03-12:
+
+* File name clashes are detected
+  $ bison foo.y -d -o foo.x
+  fatal error: header and parser would both be named `foo.x'
+
+* A missing `;' at the end of a rule triggers a warning
+  In accordance with POSIX, and in agreement with other
+  Yacc implementations, Bison will mandate this semicolon in the near
+  future.  This eases the implementation of a Bison parser of Bison
+  grammars by making this grammar LALR(1) instead of LR(2).  To
+  facilitate the transition, this release introduces a warning.
+
+* Revert the C++ namespace changes introduced in 1.31, as they caused too
+  many portability hassles.
+
+* DJGPP support added.
+
+* Fix test suite portability problems.
+
+Changes in version 1.33, 2002-02-07:
+
+* Fix C++ issues
+  Groff could not be compiled for the definition of size_t was lacking
+  under some conditions.
+
+* Catch invalid @n
+  As is done with $n.
+
+Changes in version 1.32, 2002-01-23:
+
+* Fix Yacc output file names
+
+* Portability fixes
+
+* Italian, Dutch translations
+
 Changes in version 1.31, 2002-01-14:
 
 * Many Bug Fixes
@@ -83,6 +136,7 @@
 
 * Better C++ compliance
   The output parsers try to respect C++ namespaces.
+  [This turned out to be a failed experiment, and it was reverted later.]
 
 * Reduced Grammars
   Fixed bugs when reporting useless nonterminals.
@@ -140,7 +194,7 @@
 * --output
   New, aliasing `--output-file'.
 
-Changes in version 1.30:
+Changes in version 1.30, 2001-10-26:
 
 * `--defines' and `--graph' have now an optionnal argument which is the
   output file name. `-d' and `-g' do not change, they do not take any
@@ -263,3 +317,24 @@
 Local Variables:
 mode: outline
 End:
+
+-----
+
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+
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Index: TODO
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/bison/bison/TODO,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -u -r1.47 TODO
--- TODO 19 Apr 2002 14:52:00 -0000 1.47
+++ TODO 22 Apr 2002 12:35:11 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,50 @@
 -*- outline -*-
 
+
+* URGENT: Prologue
+The %union is declared after the user C declarations. It can be
+a problem if YYSTYPE is declared after the user part.
+
+Actually, the real problem seems that the %union ought to be output
+where it was defined.  For instance, in gettext/intl/plural.y, we
+have:
+
+       %{
+       ...
+       #include "gettextP.h"
+       ...
+       %}
+
+       %union {
+         unsigned long int num;
+         enum operator op;
+         struct expression *exp;
+       }
+
+       %{
+       ...
+       static int yylex PARAMS ((YYSTYPE *lval, const char **pexp));
+       ...
+       %}
+
+Where the first part defines struct expression, the second uses it to
+define YYSTYPE, and the last uses YYSTYPE.  Only this order is valid.
+
+Note that we have the same problem with GCC.
+
+I suggest splitting the prologue into pre-prologue and post-prologue.
+The reason is that:
+
+1. we keep language independance as it is the skeleton that joins the
+two prologues (there is no need for the engine to encode union yystype
+and to output it inside the prologue, which breaks the language
+independance of the generator)
+
+2. that makes it possible to have several %union in input.  I think
+this is a pleasant (but useless currently) feature, but in the future,
+I want a means to %include other bits of grammars, and _then_ it will
+be important for the various bits to define their needs in %union.
+
 * Coding system independence
 Paul notes:
 
@@ -171,40 +216,6 @@
 error token etc., we often throw away yylval without giving a chance
 of cleaning it up to the user.
 
-* NEWS
-Sort from 1.31 NEWS.
-
-* Prologue
-The %union is declared after the user C declarations. It can be
-a problem if YYSTYPE is declared after the user part.  []
-
-Actually, the real problem seems that the %union ought to be output
-where it was defined.  For instance, in gettext/intl/plural.y, we
-have:
-
-       %{
-       ...
-       #include "gettextP.h"
-       ...
-       %}
-
-       %union {
-         unsigned long int num;
-         enum operator op;
-         struct expression *exp;
-       }
-
-       %{
-       ...
-       static int yylex PARAMS ((YYSTYPE *lval, const char **pexp));
-       ...
-       %}
-
-Where the first part defines struct expression, the second uses it to
-define YYSTYPE, and the last uses YYSTYPE.  Only this order is valid.
-
-Note that we have the same problem with GCC.
-
 * --graph
 Show reductions.       []
 
@@ -400,7 +411,7 @@
 be invoked after the action. For reasons of symmetry I also added
 YYACT_PROLOGUE. Although I had no use for that I can envision how it
 might come in handy for debugging purposes.
-All is needed is to add 
+All is needed is to add
 
 #if YYLSP_NEEDED
     YYACT_EPILOGUE (yyval, (yyvsp - yylen), yylen, yyloc, (yylsp - yylen));


-- 
Ashamed.