Bison test version 2.0a released

Bison test version 2.0a is now available. It contains mostly bug
fixes for Bison 2.0. Our intention is to generate a new official
release soon, based on feedback from this test version.


Bison is a parser generator that is compatible with Yacc. Please see
<http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/> for more info about Bison. Here
is a list of user-visible changes in version 2.0a, compared to 2.0:


* Bison-generated C parsers use the _ macro to translate strings from
    English to the user's language, e.g., _("syntax error"). By default,
    _ is defined to be a no-op macro so the strings are not translated.


* When generating verbose diagnostics, Bison-generated C parsers no longer
    quote the literal strings associated with tokens. For example, for
    a syntax error associated with '%token NUM "number"' they might
    print 'syntax error, unexpected number' instead of 'syntax error,
    unexpected "number"'.


Here is the URL:


ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-2.0a.tar.gz


Here is the MD5 checksum:


4304bcadc0115d0eb6c8744f83158a7e bison-2.0a.tar.gz


To try this test version, please make sure you have GNU m4 1.4.3
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.3.tar.gz> installed, and then execute
the following shell commands or their equivalents:


      wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-2.0a.tar.gz
      gunzip <bison-2.0a.tar.gz | tar xf -
      cd bison-2.0a
      ./configure
      make
      make check


We particularly appreciate tests on unusual hosts.


Please report bugs to <bug-bison@gnu.org>.

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