NAME
yacc - an LALR(1) parser
generator
SYNOPSIS
[-dlrtv ] [-b file_prefix ]
[-o output_filename ] [-p symbol_prefix
] filename
DESCRIPTION
Yacc reads the grammar specification in
the file filename and generates an LR(1) parser for
it. The parsers consist of a set of LALR(1) parsing
tables and a driver routine written in the C programming language.
Yacc normally writes the parse tables and the driver routine
to the file y.tab.c
The following options are available:
- -b file_prefix
- Change the prefix prepended to the output file names to the
string denoted by file_prefix The default prefix is the
character y
- -d
- Cause the header file y.tab.h to be written.
- -l
- If the -l option is not specified, will insert #line
directives in the generated code. The #line directives let the C
compiler relate errors in the generated code to the user's original
code. If the -l option is specified, will not insert the
#line directives. Any #line directives specified by the user will
be retained.
- -o output_filename
- Cause to write the generated code to output_filename
instead of the default file, y.tab.c
- -p symbol_prefix
- Change the prefix prepended to yacc-generated symbols to the
string denoted by symbol_prefix The default prefix is the
string yy
- -r
- Cause to produce separate files for code and tables. The code
file is named y.code.c and the tables file is named y.tab.c
- -t
- Change the preprocessor directives generated by so that
debugging statements will be incorporated in the compiled code.
- -v
- Cause a human-readable description of the generated parser to
be written to the file y.output
If the environment variable TMPDIR is set, the string
denoted by TMPDIR will be used as the name of the directory
where the temporary files are created.
FILES
- y.code.c
- y.tab.c
- y.tab.h
- y.output
- /tmp/yacc.aXXXXXXXXXX
- /tmp/yacc.tXXXXXXXXXX
- /tmp/yacc.uXXXXXXXXXX
DIAGNOSTICS
If there are rules that are never reduced, the
number of such rules is reported on standard error. If there are
any LALR(1)
conflicts, the number of conflicts is reported on standard error.