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      1 Authors of GNU Bison.
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      3 Bison was written primarily by Robert Corbett.
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      5 Richard Stallman made it Yacc-compatible.
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      7 Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University added multicharacter
      8 string literals and other features (Bison 1.25, 1995).
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     10 Akim Demaille rewrote the parser in Bison, and changed the back end to
     11 use M4 (1.50, 2002).
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     13 Paul Hilfinger added GLR support (Bison 1.50, 2002).
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     15 Joel E. Denny contributed canonical-LR support, and invented and added
     16 IELR and LAC (Lookahead Correction) support (Bison 2.5, 2011).
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     18 Paolo Bonzini contributed Java support (Bison 2.4, 2008).
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     20 Alex Rozenman added named reference support (Bison 2.5, 2011).
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     22 Paul Eggert fixed a million portability issues, arbitrary limitations,
     23 and nasty bugs.
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     27 Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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     29 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler.
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     31 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     32 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
     33 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
     34 (at your option) any later version.
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     36 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     37 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     38 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
     39 GNU General Public License for more details.
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     41 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
     42 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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