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doc: fixes to please older versions of Texinfo
Currently, we have errors:
./doc/bison.texi:13005: node `History' lacks menu item for `Yacc' despite being its Up target
* doc/bison.texi (History): Add the local menu.
While at it, add a few index entries.
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@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ A Brief History of the Greater Ungulates
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* yacchack:: An obscure early implementation of reentrancy
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* Byacc:: Berkeley Yacc
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* Bison:: This program
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* Other ungulates:: Similar programs
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* Other Ungulates:: Similar programs
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Frequently Asked Questions
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@@ -13007,6 +13007,14 @@ The exceptions thrown by user-supplied parser actions and
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@cindex history
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@cindex ungulates
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@menu
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* Yacc:: The original Yacc
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* yacchack:: An obscure early implementation of reentrancy
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* Byacc:: Berkeley Yacc
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* Bison:: This program
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* Other Ungulates:: Similar programs
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@end menu
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@node Yacc
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@section The ancestral Yacc
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@@ -13043,6 +13051,7 @@ variants.
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@node yacchack
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@section yacchack
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@cindex yacchack
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One of the deficiencies of original Yacc was its inability to produce
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reentrant parsers. This was first remedied by a set of drop-in
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@@ -13052,6 +13061,7 @@ became available a few years later.
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@node Byacc
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@section Berkeley Yacc
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@cindex byacc
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Berkeley Yacc was originated in 1985 by Robert Corbett
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(@pxref{Bibliography,,Corbett 1984}). It was originally named ``zoo'', but
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@@ -13069,6 +13079,7 @@ Bison became available, byacc itself passed out of general use.
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@node Bison
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@section Bison
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@cindex zoo
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Robert Corbett actually wrote two (closely related) LALR parsers in 1985,
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both using the DeRemer/Penello techniques. One was ``zoo'', the other was
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@@ -13111,8 +13122,8 @@ ancestral Yacc or Byson.
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Bison obsolesced all previous Yacc variants and workalikes generating C by
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1995.
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@node Other ungulates
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@section Other ungulates
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@node Other Ungulates
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@section Other Ungulates
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The Yacc concept has frequently been ported to other languages. Some of the
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early ports are extinct along with the languages that hosted them; others
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