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Encyclopedia > GNU bison
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GNU bison is a free parser generator computer program written for the GNU project, and available for virtually all common operating systems. It is mostly compatible with Yacc, and offers several improvements over the earlier program. It is commonly used in conjunction with flex, but lexical analysers can be hand-written or produced by some other automated method. Image File history File links Portal. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... A compiler-compiler or parser generator is a utility for generating the source code of a parser, interpreter or compiler from an annotated language description in the form of a grammar (usually in BNF) plus code that is associated with each of the rules of the grammar that should be... A computer program is a collection of instructions that describe a task, or set of tasks, to be carried out by a computer. ... GNU (pronounced ) is a free operating system consisting of a kernel, libraries, system utilities, compilers, and end-user applications. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Yacc is a piece of computer software that serves as the standard parser generator on Unix systems. ... flex (fast lexical analyzer generator) is a free software alternative to Lex. ...


Bison converts a grammar description for a LALR context-free grammar into a C or C++ program to parse that grammar. It can also produce a sort of GLR parser that works by splitting into several LALR parsers running simultaneously when a conflict occurs. Grammar is the study of rules governing the use of language. ... Look-Ahead LR parsers or LALR parsers are a specialized form of LR parsers that can deal with more context-free grammars than Simple LR parsers but less than LR(1) parsers can. ... In linguistics and computer science, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar in which every production rule is of the form V → w where V is a nonterminal symbol and w is a string consisting of terminals and/or non-terminals. ... C is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... C++ (IPA pronounciation: ) is a general-purpose, high-level programming language with low-level facilities. ... In computer science, a GLR parser, generalized LR parser is an extension of a LR parser algorithm to handle nondeterministic and ambiguous grammars. ...


References

External links

  • Compiler Construction using Flex and Bison - course by Anthony Aaby
  • Download Win32 binaries of Flex and Bison
  • ANSI-C yacc (bison) grammar
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GNU bison is a free parser generator computer program written for the GNU project, and available for virtually all common operating systems.
Bison converts a grammar description for a LALR context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar.
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