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|Full description=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.
 
|Full description=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.
 
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|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
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Revision as of 09:49, 12 April 2011

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Bison

http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/
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.

Documentation

User reference manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/. Printed user reference manual available from http://shop.fsf.org/product/bison-manual/

Related Projects

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Download

Download External-link-icon.png version 2.7.1 (stable)
released on 15 April 2013

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Licensing

LicenseVerified byVerified onNotes
GPLv2orlaterKelly Hopkins11 August 2010



Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
"Email akim@epita.fr" Akim Demaille Contributor
"Email eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU" Paul Eggert Contributor
Paul Hilfinger and Joel DennyContributor


Resources and communication

Audience Resource type URI
Bug Tracking E-mail mailto:bug-bison@gnu.org
Support E-mail mailto:help-bison@gnu.org
Help E-mail mailto:info-gnu@gnu.org
Help Newsgroup gnu.annouce


Software prerequisites

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 19 May 2013.



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