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Bison
Computer languages C  +
Documentation note User reference manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/ Printed user reference manual available from http://www.gnu.org/doc/book10.html
Full description Bison is a general-purpose parser generato Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context-free grammar into an LALR(1) or GLR parser for that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you can use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages. Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. You need to be fluent in C or C++ programming in order to use Bison. or C++ programming in order to use Bison.
Homepage URL http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html  +
Interface command-line  +
Is GNU true  +
Keywords YACC  + , grammar  + , bison  + , parser  +
Last review by Janet Casey +
Last review date 1 May 2010  +
License GPLv2orlater +
License verified by Kelly Hopkins  +
License verified date 11 August 2010  +
Name Bison  +
Real name Akim Demaille  + , Paul Eggert  + , Paul Hilfinger and Joel Denny  +
Related projects CPG + , Gperf + , Dparser + , Flex +
Resource URL mailto:bug-bison@gnu.org  + , mailto:help-bison@gnu.org  + , mailto:info-gnu@gnu.org  + , gnu.annouce  +
Resource audience Bug Tracking  + , Support  + , Help  +
Resource kind E-mail  + , Newsgroup  +
Revisionid 3,600  +
Revisiontimestamp 12 April 2011 13:49:43  +
Revisionuser WikiSysop +
Role Contributor  +
Short description Replacement for the parser generator 'yacc'  +
Software-development small-specific-development-task  +
Submitted by Database conversion +
Submitted date 1 April 2011  +
Use software-development  +
User level none  +
Version date 5 August 2010  +
Version download http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-2.4.3.tar.bz2  +
Version identifier 2.4.3  +
Version status stable  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 25 May 2012 00:20:44  +
Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki. Entry  +
EmailThis property is a special property in this wiki. akim@epita.fr  + , eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU  +
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