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authorAkim Demaille <akim.demaille@gmail.com>2019-04-26 16:30:11 +0200
committerAkim Demaille <akim.demaille@gmail.com>2019-04-27 18:27:04 +0200
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doc: clarify -fsyntax-error
* NEWS, doc/bison.texi: here.
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@@ -10616,7 +10616,11 @@ The fix-its are applied by @command{bison} itself when given the option
@option{-u}/@option{--update}. See its documentation above.
@item syntax-only
-Do not generate the output files.
+Do not generate the output files. The name of this feature is somewhat
+misleading as more than just checking the syntax is done: every stage is run
+(including checking for conflicts for instance), except the generation of
+the output files.
+
@end table
@end table