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'''Yacc''' (''Yet Another Compiler-Compiler'') is a Look-Ahead LR parser generator that takes Backus–Naur Form text files and generates LALR parsers from it. Primarily used as tool for generating front end parsers for compilers or formal validation for file formats in export filters and so on, so forth. | |||
==History== | |||
Originally developed by Stephen C. Johnson at AT&T in [[B]] and later rewritten in [[C]]. | |||
==Implementations== | |||
;C | |||
* Abraxas Software PCYACC/2 | |||
* Berkeley [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/util/byacc.zip Yacc 1.8] - LALR parser generator | |||
* GNU [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/util/bison-2.7.91.zip bison 2.7.91] | |||
;Other programming languages | |||
*ML-Yacc - for the Standard ML | |||
*CL-Yacc - for Common Lisp | |||
*PLY - for Python | |||
==See also== | |||
* [[lex]] - lexical analyser | |||
==Links== | |||
* Stephen C. Johnson: ''[http://hpdc.syr.edu/~chapin/cis657/yacc.pdf Yacc: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler]'' | |||
* Java: http://byaccj.sourceforge.net/ | |||
[[Category:Parser generator]] | |||
Revision as of 22:59, 15 December 2017
Yacc (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) is a Look-Ahead LR parser generator that takes Backus–Naur Form text files and generates LALR parsers from it. Primarily used as tool for generating front end parsers for compilers or formal validation for file formats in export filters and so on, so forth.
History
Originally developed by Stephen C. Johnson at AT&T in B and later rewritten in C.
Implementations
- C
- Abraxas Software PCYACC/2
- Berkeley Yacc 1.8 - LALR parser generator
- GNU bison 2.7.91
- Other programming languages
- ML-Yacc - for the Standard ML
- CL-Yacc - for Common Lisp
- PLY - for Python
See also
- lex - lexical analyser
Links
- Stephen C. Johnson: Yacc: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
- Java: http://byaccj.sourceforge.net/