* JFlex 1.4.3 (Jan 31, 2009)
- fixed bug #2018299 (lookahead syntax error)
- fixed bug #2010261 (min_int in Java example scanner)
- fixed bug #2007221 (zzEOFDone not reset in yyreset(Reader))
- fixed bug #1999301 (%type and %int at the same time should produce error msg)
* JFlex 1.4.2 (May 27, 2008)
- implemented feature request #1212181:
Now supports generics syntax for %type, %extends, etc
- implemented feature request #1762500:
Provided %ctorarg option to add arguments to constructor
- fixed bug #1464525 (Reader.read might return 0)
- fixed bug #1968897 (Ambiguous error message in macro expansion)
- fixed bug #1832973 (Syntax error in input may cause NullPointerException)
- fixed bug #1629920 (Need to defend against path blanks in jflex bash script)
- fixed bug #1540228 (EOF actions may be ignored for same lex state)
- fixed bug #1498726 (syntax error in generated ZZ_CMAP)
- fixed bug #1282840 (lookahead and "|" actions)
- fixed bug #1164852 (yytext() longer than expected with lookahead)
- fixed bug #1065521 (OS/2 Java 1.1.8 Issues)
- fixed bug #421495 (dangerous lookahead check may fail)
* JFlex 1.4.1 (November 7, 2004)
- merged in patch by Don Brown (fixes #1049791 Uses Old JUnit method assertFalse)
- merged in patch by Don Brown (fixes #887821 buffer expansion bug in yy_refill())
Thanks to Binesh Bannerjee for providing a simpler test case for this problem.
- fixed bug #1035407 (ArrayIndexOutOfBounds in IntCharSet)
- fixed bug #1003569 (Cannot use lookahead with ignorecase)
- converted dangerous lookahead error to warning
- print info for EOF actions as well in %debug mode
- fixed line number count for EOF actions
- internal: removed unused methods in LexScan.flex and IntCharSet
* JFlex 1.4 (April 12, 2004)
- new, very fast minimization algorithm (also fixes memory issues)
- new --jlex option for strict compatibility to JLex. Currently it
changes %ignorecase to JLex semantics, that is, character classes
are interpreted in a caseless way, too.
(fixes bus #751757, %ignorecase ignored by char classes).
Thanks to Edward D. Willink for spotting the incompatibility.
- support for even larger scanners (up to 64K DFA states).
Thanks to Karin Vespoor.
- removed eclipse compiler warnings for generated classes
(feature request #778747)
- implemented faster character classes (feature request #604589).
Expressions like [a-z] | [A-Z] are interpreted as one atomic class
[a-zA-Z], reducing NFA states and generation time significantly
for some specifications. This affects the generation process only,
generated scanners remain the same.
- new %apiprivate switch (feature request #513500/1) that causes all
generated and skeleton methods to be made private. Exceptions to this
are user defined functions and the constructor. Thanks to Stephen
Ostermiller for the suggestion.
- allow user defined javadoc class comments (feature request #513500/2)
If the user code section ends with a javadoc comment, JFlex takes this
instead of the generated comment. Thanks to Stephen Ostermiller for
the suggestion.
- fixed bug #491095 (undefined macros in complement expressions do
not throw exception in generator). Thanks to Stephen Ostermiller
for the bug report.
- fixed bug #495422 (yypushStream/yypopStream in skeleton.nested
work as advertised)
- fixed bug #611118 (no wrong macro warnings on regexp negation)
- fixed bug #655528 (%cupsym now also affects %cupdebug)
Thanks to Eric Schweitz for the fix.
- fixed bug #510010 (single-line %initthrow works now
in case of extra whitespace before newline)
- yyreset() does no longer close the associated reader (use yyclose()
explicitly for that). Makes some reader objects reusable (feature
request #513492). Thanks to Stephen Ostermiller for the suggestion.
- fixed modifier order in generated code, removes jikes compiler warnings
Thanks to Michael Wildpaner for the fix.
- ant task now also works with ant >= 1.4 (fixes bug #526905)
- yyreset() does not declare an execption any more (fixes bug #913132)
- %cup does not include %eofclose in JLex mode (--jlex). (Fixes bug #910562)
- optional parameter to %eofclose: "%eofclose false" turns off %eofclose if
it was turned on previously (e.g. by %cup). (Fixes bug #910562)
- jflex build script switched to ant
- internal: central Options class for better integration with
build tools and IDEs
- internal: change naming scheme for generated internal variables from
yy_ to zz to comply with Java naming standard. Thanks to Max Gilead
for the patch.
* JFlex 1.3.5 (October 8, 2001)
- fixed all bugs reported for version 1.3.4. Thanks to
Amin Ahmad and Fred Wehrhahn for their excellent bug reports.
- implemented feature request #459014: vim syntax file.
Thanks to Michael Brailsford for his help and suggestions.
- JFlex should run with JDK 1.1 out-of-the-box again.
* JFlex 1.3.4 (October 1, 2001)
- fixed all bugs reported for version 1.3.3. Thanks to Mike Akerman
for his excellent bug reports and his help.
- implemented feature request #459355: exclusive start states.
Thanks to Ed Beroset for the suggestion.
- introduced %s and %x shorthands for state declarations
* JFlex 1.3.3 (September 21, 2001)
- fixed all reported bugs except #39 (lookahead check at generation
time may fail). Thanks to Axel Schwolow, Karl Meissner, Angelo
Borsotti, and Paolo Di Francesco for their excellent bug reports.
- enhanced %debug output. JFlex scanners in debug mode now print line,
column, matched text, and executed action (with line number in spec)
for each processed token. Thanks to
Karl Meissner for the
suggestion.
- introduced %cupdebug directive for readable CUP debugging. Generated
scanners print line, column, matched text, and CUP symbol name for
each returned token. Again thanks to Karl Meissner for tips and
contributed Java reflection code.
- new %cupsym to customize CUP generated symbols class name. Thanks
to Karl Meissner and Paolo Di Francesco.
- new %throws as shorthand for %yylexthrow
- code generation now customizable at command line with --table,
--pack, and --switch
- command line switch --info prints system and JVM information (useful
for bug reports)
- command line switch --nobak for not generating backup files
- an Ant task for the Ant build tool http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/
contributed by Rafal Mantiuk. Many thanks to him.
- better error message for missing ] in char class. Thanks to Karl
Meissner.
- performance enhancements in the runtime system. The engine is now
10%-50% faster. These are only the first implementations of a few of
the many suggestions from Angelo Borsotti. Thanks to Angelo for many
insights, tips, and fruitful discussions.
- a new warning if a rule can never be matched
- macros and regular expression can now span multiple lines (note
that | at the end of a line in a rule is a special action,
not the | operator)
- updated the manual to contain more information about the generated
class, clarified the description of lexical states. Thanks to Michael
Binz, Angelo Borsotti, Vasily Karyaev and for the suggestions.
- Simplified java example lexer, and allow // style comments at EOF.
Thanks to Thomas Mulcahy.
- Byacc/J example updated to version 1.1
- New interpreter example using CUP. Thanks to Bernhard Rumpe for
the code.
* JFlex 1.3.2 (February 24, 2001)
- fixed bug #32 (this time for real). Thanks to Thilo Goetz for
his quick report.
- updated the binary scanning example with the more comprehensive and
usable class StraightStreamReader by Stephen Ostermiller. Thanks go to
him for his contribution. The original version of this class is at
http://www.smo.f2s.com/utils/
- added a link to a Japanese translation of the JFlex manual (it's in Japanese
Shift_JIS encoding). The translation is for an older release (1.1.2), but
most of the text still applies to the current version. See the change log
for the differences between 1.1.2 and the current version. Many thanks to
Yuichi Nakajima, Yukio Ikeda, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, and Koji Ooya for
their efforts.
If you would like to translate the JFlex manual into another language, or
if you already have done so, please let me know. I will include a link to
it on the documentation page. I can also give you access to the latex
sources of the manual, so that printable versions of your translation can
be generated, too.
* JFlex 1.3.1 (February 20, 2001)
- fixed all JFlex bugs reported for 1.3 (bugs #32-#36)
Thanks to Hans Kratz, Vasily Karyaev, Alexey Yakovets, and Tom Moog for
their excellent reports.
- added two new example scanners:
. a demonstration how to scan binary files
. a small calculator example for Cup, based on the example in the Linux
Gazette by Richard A. Sevenich and Christopher Lopes. See also
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue39/sevenich.html
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue41/sevenich.html
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue41/lopes/lopes.html
- manual section about encodings, platforms and Unicode.
Thanks to Stephen Ostermiller for his valuable input.
- switch for skipping the minimization step in DFA generation (--nomin).
This feature is still in alpha status and not yet extensively tested. It
might be useful when you have very large scanners and not much memory
available.
- switch for generating graphviz dot files for graphical representation (ps
or gif) of generated NFA, DFA and minimized DFA (--dot). Might be useful for
teaching. This feature is also still in alpha status and not fully finished
yet. It is included as preview, comments are welcome, please try it out and
tell me what you think. For information on graphviz see
http://www.research.att.com:80/sw/tools/graphviz/
- changed to --style long command line switches (single - still recognized).
- moved part of the project to http://sourceforge.net/projects/jflex/
* JFlex 1.3 (October 21, 2000)
- Fixed all bugs reported for 1.2.2 (bugs #23-#27).
- Better start script for Linux.
- Customize for internal error handling in yy_ScanError.
- Empty charclass [], and any (=negated empty) charclass [^].
- New negation operator ! for regexps.
- New upto operator ~ for regexps.
- Customizable buffer size (%buffer).
- New char yycharat(int) for efficient access to single characters in matched text.
- Split up of too large lex tables for even larger scanner sizes.
- New additional external skeleton with support for nested input streams.
- JLex compatibility: BOL ^ and EOL $ use unicode line separators as in
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/tr18-5.1.html.
- New resetStream method for reusing scanner objects.
_ BYacc/J support (%byaccj) + BYacc/J example.
- Include files in lexer specs (%include).
- New --dump switch for a dump of the generated charclasses, NFA, DFA, and minimized DFA tables.
* JFlex 1.2.2 (August 23, 1999)
- Updated JFlex to the new CUP version 0.10j.
- Eliminated some remaining platform dependent newlines in the generated source code
(affecting the readabilty of the generated code only, no functional changes).
- Minor improvements in error reporting (out of memory).
- Added a --version command line option for printing the current jflex version.
- Updated the Java 1.2 lexer/parser example to CUP 0.10j.
* JFlex 1.2.1 (June 25, 1999)
- Fixed all bugs reported for version 1.2 (#19-#22).
- Webpage redesigned and moved to http://www.jflex.de.
- Example java lexer/parser switched to Java 1.2.
* JFlex 1.2 (March 21, 1999)
- Fixed all bugs for 1.1.2.
- JFlex now works again with Solaris JIT.
- Significant Unicode optimizations in scanning and generation performance,
- changed the empty string match wrt. EOF behavior to the one that is commonly expected.
- added command line switches for more customization
- external skeleton files
- new GUI without any console output
- <> as in lex/flex
- better error messages
- better generation speed
- better generation memory efficiency
- | Action, trailing context (/ operator)
- new %final, %abstract and %extends directives
- uses jar file
- included makefile for JFlex,
- %pack now uses string packing,
- %pack now default code generation method,
- new %switch directive for old default code generation method,
- more convenient declaration of exceptions,
- new %int switch,
- manual now written in latex, available as html and in printable .ps.gz and pdf file formats.
* JFlex 1.1.2
- All bugs reported for version 1.1.1 (#8-#10) have been fixed.
* JFlex 1.1.1
- All bugs reported for version 1.1 (i.e. bug #7 and feature request #6) have been fixed.
- Scanning speed was optimized further.
* JFlex 1.1 adds new features and fixes all known bugs of 1.0
- Revised directory structure.
- Fixed all reported bugs (#1-#5 and some unreported ones).
- Fixed thousands of typos in the manual.
- whitespace characters in regular expressions,
- flex style repeat expressions,
- %caseless switch,
- %eofclose switch,
- method for closing the input stream,
- method for the current lexical state,
- method for rereading matched text,
- backup of files that are overwitten in the generation process,
- improved error reporting,
- graphical UI when no filename is provided on the commandline
* JFlex 1.0 (May 1998) was the first public release of JFlex.
It was developed using Sun's JDK 1.1, JFlex (bootstrapped) and the parser generator CUP