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diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index bb91ac06..2b92edcf 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ of the .output file etc. This excludes impossible error messages (comparable to assert/abort), and all the --trace output which is meant for the maintainers only. +** Horizontal tabs +Do not add horizontal tab characters to any file in Bison's repository +except where required. For example, do not use tabs to format C code. +However, make files, ChangeLog, and some regular expressions require +tabs. Also, test cases might need to contain tabs to check that Bison +properly processes tabs in its input. + * Working from the repository @@ -226,6 +233,9 @@ release: that it does not make sense for glr.c, which should be ANSI, but currently is actually GNU C, nor for lalr1.cc. +- Test with a very recent version of GCC for both C and C++. Testing + with older versions that are still in use is nice too. + * Release Procedure This section needs to be updated to take into account features from |