Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Want C syntax in lex
Message-ID: <1989Mar29.224649.5766@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2188@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 22:46:49 GMT

In article <2188@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com> loo@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com (Joel Loo) writes:
>Is there a C syntax definition in lex which can be obtained easily?

Um, surely you are thinking of yacc, not lex?  It's easy enough to write
a lex description of the syntax of C's tokens, if you ignore one or two
preprocessor oddities, but a full syntax of C can't possibly be done in
lex -- you need something like yacc for that.

I did a lex description of C tokens a couple of years ago which I can post
if people are interested.  It's not up-to-date in a couple of small respects,
I think, but it's close.
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