Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ho95e!wcs From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: YACC help Message-ID: <2000@ho95e.ATT.COM> Date: 25 Feb 88 03:15:21 GMT References: <9806@udenva.cair.du.edu> <296@tifsie.UUCP> Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart,2G218,x0705,) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Center 4613, Holmdel NJ Lines: 21 In article <296@tifsie.UUCP> kent@tifsie.UUCP (Russell Kent) writes: :in article <9806@udenva.cair.du.edu>, news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) says: :> Where can I find a good discussion of yacc? I don't mean an :> exposition on the internals of yacc, but practical examples of how to :There exists a thorough discussion of YACC and LEX, as well as a useful :example of how to use them in a _real_ sense (not one of those trivial :examples we sometimes see) in a book recently published by Prentice-Hall. Introduction to Compiler Construction with UNIX\(tm Axel T. Schreiner, H. George Friedman, Jr. Prentice-Hall 1985, ISBN 0-13-474396-2 :> use it. Further, are there any PD versions floating about - I need to :> port this to a PDP running RSX-11M (don't laugh, we have lex running so far). There are occasionally things that claim to be PD, but they aren't; I think one was on an old DECUS tape, and has been stolen to a few other places. There are similar tools that *are* PD, such as Bison (part of the GNU project). -- # Thanks; # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs