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doc: document the exit status
Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2013-09/msg00015.html * doc/bison.texi (Invocation): Here.
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@@ -9645,10 +9645,10 @@ and understand the parser run-time traces (@pxref{Tracing}).
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@node Understanding
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@section Understanding Your Parser
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As documented elsewhere (@pxref{Algorithm})
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Bison parsers are @dfn{shift/reduce automata}. In some cases (much more
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frequent than one would hope), looking at this automaton is required to
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tune or simply fix a parser.
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As documented elsewhere (@pxref{Algorithm}) Bison parsers are
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@dfn{shift/reduce automata}. In some cases (much more frequent than one
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would hope), looking at this automaton is required to tune or simply fix a
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parser.
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The textual file is generated when the options @option{--report} or
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@option{--verbose} are specified, see @ref{Invocation}. Its name is made by
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@@ -10604,6 +10604,26 @@ For compatibility with POSIX, the standard Bison distribution also contains
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a shell script called @command{yacc} that invokes Bison with the @option{-y}
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option.
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@sp 1
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The exit status of @command{bison} is:
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@table @asis
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@item 0 (success)
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when there were no errors. Warnings, which are diagnostics about dubious
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constructs, do not change the exit status, unless they are turned into
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errors (@pxref{-Werror,,@option{-Werror}}).
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@item 1 (failure)
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when there were errors. No file was generated (except the reports generated
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by @option{--verbose}, etc.). In particular, the output files that possibly
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existed were not changed.
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@item 63 (mistmatch)
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when @command{bison} does not meet the version requirements of the grammar
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file. @xref{Require Decl}. No file was generated or changed.
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@end table
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@menu
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* Bison Options:: All the options described in detail,
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in alphabetical order by short options.
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@@ -10997,6 +11017,7 @@ instance, @option{-Wno-yacc} will hide the warnings about
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POSIX Yacc incompatibilities.
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@item -Werror
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@anchor{-Werror}
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Turn enabled warnings for every @var{category} into errors, unless they are
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explicitly disabled by @option{-Wno-error=@var{category}}.
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