Yet Another Compiler Compiler


Yet Another Compiler Compiler

(tool, language)(yacc) The LALR parser generator found onmost Unix systems. Also, the language used to describe thesyntax of another language to yacc (the program).

Implementations: ayacc, YAY, perln-byacc,

SASL-Yacc - "Yacc in SASL - An Exercise in FunctionalProgramming", Simon Peyton-Jones, Software Prac & Exp15:807-820 (1985). Mentions also a BCPL implementation.

Yacc++ - 1990. An object-oriented rewrite of yacc, supportsregular expressions, produces an LR1 grammar parser.

["YACC Meets C++", S.C. Johnson, USENIX Spring '88 Conf].

Chris Clark, Compiler Resources Inc, +1 (508) 435-5016.

MLYACC - Implementation and output in SML/NJ.ftp:research.att.com/dist/ml/75.tools.tar.Z.

A version, by David Poole at Montana University has beenretargeted to Turbo Pascal.

ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/lyprg.zip.

See also Bison, yet another, Yet Another Yacc.

Unix manual page: yacc(1).

["YACC - Yet Another Compiler Compiler", S.C. Johnson, CS TR32, Bell Labs (Jul 1975)].