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 Bison News
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+Changes in version 1.75b:
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+* Bison now parses C99 lexical constructs like digraphs, UCNs, and
+  backslash-newline within C escape sequences, as POSIX now requires.
+
 Changes in version 1.75a, 2002-10-24:
 
 * Bison can no longer be built by a K&R C compiler; it requires C89 or