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| author | Akim Demaille <akim.demaille@gmail.com> | 2019-04-22 16:26:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Akim Demaille <akim.demaille@gmail.com> | 2019-04-23 18:29:10 +0200 |
| commit | 95d688957fccb504c7dc588be1bd72fe029b7460 (patch) | |
| tree | 1caf310a051adc5d63b1a6e6351c88e86c56de4e /NEWS | |
| parent | a9b350fb3adf8e4510d7ca7bf111161bdf713a33 (diff) | |
| download | bison-95d688957fccb504c7dc588be1bd72fe029b7460.tar.gz | |
diagnostics: document the change of format
* doc/bison.texiL Adjust output.
Also, Graphviz has no uppercsae V.
* NEWS: Explain the format change.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 26 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -4,10 +4,32 @@ GNU Bison NEWS ** Changes - In conformance with the recommendations of the GraphViz team, if %require +*** Graphviz output + + In conformance with the recommendations of the Graphviz team, if %require "3.4" (or better) is specified, the option --graph generates a *.gv file by default, instead of *.dot. +*** Diagnostics overhaul + + Column numbers were wrong with multibyte characters, which would also + result in skewed diagnostics with carets. Beside, because we were + indenting the quoted source with a single space, lines with tab characters + were incorrectly underlined. + + To address these issues, and to be clearer, Bison now issues diagnostics + as GCC9 does. For instance it used to display (there's a tab before the + opening brace): + + foo.y:3.37-38: error: $2 of ‘expr’ has no declared type + expr: expr '+' "number" { $$ = $1 + $2; } + ^~ + It now reports + + foo.y:3.37-38: error: $2 of ‘expr’ has no declared type + 3 | expr: expr '+' "number" { $$ = $1 + $2; } + | ^~ + ** New features *** Colored diagnostics @@ -22,7 +44,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS for instance - https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/libtextstyle-0.7.tar.gz + https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/libtextstyle-0.8.tar.gz The option --color supports the following arguments: - always, yes: Enable colors. |