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@@ -3,7 +3,43 @@ changes between releases of flex. See the file COPYING for copying conditions. -* flex version 2.5.39 +* version 2.6.0 released 2015-11-17 + +** User Visible Changes + +*** C++ scanners now use references instead of pointers. See the manual for details. + +*** A number of compiler warnings were addressed, so flex generated scanners should be quieter under compiler warning scenarios. + +*** Allow error reporting routines to accept varying number of arguments + +*** Removed deprecated 'register' storage class specifier + +*** Changeed output formats from octal to hexadecimal + +*** check limits before using array index cclp; resolves sf-166 + +*** Suppress clang warning about empty @param paragraph; resolves sf#158 + +*** Fixed malloc/realloc replacement, resolves sf bug#151. + +*** Adjusted buffer sizes on ia64. + +*** various documentation and code clean up fixes: resolves sf bugs #167, #168, among other patches. + +** Flex Internals + +*** flex is now organized into subdirectories. This keeps the tree neater at the top level and puts like things near each other and unlike things away from each other. + +*** The test suite has been reorganized and is now run with the parallel test suite harness from automake. + +*** Cleaned up the automake parts of the build system to better reflect what automake does on its own. Also added a call to libtoolize in autogen.sh because autoreconf gets confused without a prior run of libtoolize. + +*** po/Makefile now includes a rule to fetch the latest translations from the translation project. "make -f po/Makefile getpo" from the top level of the flex tree will fetch the files. + +*** New da translation from the translation project + +* flex version 2.5.39 released 2014-03-26 ** no user visible changes in this release @@ -475,7 +511,7 @@ options, see accompanying documentation *** Updated the manual with the new reentrant API -*** Two new options %option reentrant (-R) and +*** Two new options %option reentrant (-R) and %option reentrant-bison (-Rb) *** All globals optionally placed into struct yyglobals_t @@ -505,7 +541,7 @@ But the inverse is still true ** Developer test suite added -*** TESTS/ directory has been added. Users can +*** TESTS/ directory has been added. Users can 'make test' in the TESTS directory to execute the test suite ** Support for bison variables yylval and yylloc added |