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Bison - Replacement for the parser generator 'yacc'

General purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for a LALR context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. It can be used to create a range of language parsers. Bison is upwardly compatible with Yacc, so properly written Yacc grammars and those users familiar with Yacc should have little trouble, although you do need to be fluent in C to use Bison.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-1.875.tar.gz
Version 1.875 (stable) released on 2003-01-08
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference manual available from http://www.gnu.org/manual/bison-1.35/bison.html http://www.gnu.org/manual/bison/index.html; Printed user reference manual printed available from http://www.gnupress.org/
Support contacts

Announce List<info-gnu@gnu.org>
Announce Newsgnu.annouce
Help List<help-bison@gnu.org>
Bug List<bug-bison@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • Robert Corbett
  • Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
  • Wilfred Hansen

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Related programsGperf

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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