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From: jos@philapd.UUCP (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.scheme.c
Subject: Re: Need C language Description
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Date: 1 Aug 88 13:27:41 GMT
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In article <12707@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> cotner@bosco.berkeley.edu writes:
>A friend of mine would like to write a small C compiler for a project.
>(The rest of the class are writing Pascal compilers).  However, he needs
>a formal language description of C, and so far neither one of us have been 
>able to find one.

In "C: A Reference Manual", written by Harbison & Steele, a LALR(1) grammar
is included in an appendix. You *should* be able to feed it to YACC, for
instance, but I have never tried it!

Of course (?), this is only a *syntactic* description, not a *semantic* one.

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