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+<head>
+<title>yacc(1) - Plan 9 from User Space</title>
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+<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%>
+<tr height=10><td>
+<tr><td width=20><td>
+<tr><td width=20><td><b>YACC(1)</b><td align=right><b>YACC(1)</b>
+<tr><td width=20><td colspan=2>
+ <br>
+<p><font size=+1><b>NAME </b></font><br>
+
+<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ yacc &ndash; yet another compiler-compiler<br>
+
+</table>
+<p><font size=+1><b>SYNOPSIS </b></font><br>
+
+<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ <tt><font size=+1>yacc</font></tt> [ <i>option ...</i> ] <i>grammar<br>
+ </i>
+</table>
+<p><font size=+1><b>DESCRIPTION </b></font><br>
+
+<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ <i>Yacc</i> converts a context-free grammar and translation code into
+ a set of tables for an LR(1) parser and translator. The grammar
+ may be ambiguous; specified precedence rules are used to break
+ ambiguities.
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=5><td></table>
+
+ The output file, <tt><font size=+1>y.tab.c</font></tt>, must be compiled by the C compiler to
+ produce a program <tt><font size=+1>yyparse</font></tt>. This program must be loaded with a
+ lexical analyzer function, <tt><font size=+1>yylex(void)</font></tt> (often generated by <a href="../man1/lex.html"><i>lex</i>(1)</a>),
+ with a <tt><font size=+1>main(int &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;argc, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;char &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*argv[])</font></tt> program, and with an error
+ handling routine,
+ <tt><font size=+1>yyerror(char*)</font></tt>.
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=5><td></table>
+
+ The options are<br>
+ <tt><font size=+1>&#8722;o</font></tt> <i>output</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Direct output to the specified file instead of <tt><font size=+1>y.tab.c</font></tt>.<br>
+ <tt><font size=+1>&#8722;D</font></tt><i>n</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Create file <tt><font size=+1>y.debug</font></tt>, containing diagnostic messages. To incorporate
+ them in the parser, compile it with preprocessor symbol <tt><font size=+1>yydebug</font></tt>
+ defined. The amount of diagnostic output from the parser is regulated
+ by value <i>n</i>. The value 0 reports errors; 1 reports reductions;
+ higher values (up to 4) include
+
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ more information about state transitions.<br>
+
+ </table>
+
+ </table>
+ <tt><font size=+1>&#8722;v</font></tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Create file <tt><font size=+1>y.output</font></tt>, containing a description of the parsing
+ tables and of conflicts arising from ambiguities in the grammar.<br>
+ <tt><font size=+1>&#8722;d</font></tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Create file <tt><font size=+1>y.tab.h</font></tt>, containing <tt><font size=+1>#define</font></tt> statements that associate
+ <i>yacc</i>-assigned &#8216;token codes&#8217; with user-declared &#8216;token names&#8217;.
+ Include it in source files other than <tt><font size=+1>y.tab.c</font></tt> to give access to
+ the token codes.<br>
+ <tt><font size=+1>&#8722;s</font></tt> <i>stem</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Change the prefix <tt><font size=+1>y</font></tt> of the file names <tt><font size=+1>y.tab.c</font></tt>, <tt><font size=+1>y.tab.h</font></tt>,
+ <tt><font size=+1>y.debug</font></tt>, and <tt><font size=+1>y.output</font></tt> to <i>stem</i>.<br>
+ <tt><font size=+1>&#8722;S</font></tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Write a parser that uses Stdio instead of the <tt><font size=+1>print</font></tt> routines
+ in libc.
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=5><td></table>
+
+ The specification of <i>yacc</i> itself is essentially the same as the
+ UNIX version described in the references mentioned below. Besides
+ the <tt><font size=+1>&#8722;D</font></tt> option, the main relevant differences are:<br>
+
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ The interface to the C environment is by default through <tt><font size=+1>&lt;libc.h&gt;</font></tt>
+ rather than <tt><font size=+1>&lt;stdio.h&gt;</font></tt>; the <tt><font size=+1>&#8722;S</font></tt> option reverses this.<br>
+ The parser accepts UTF input text (see <a href="../man7/utf.html"><i>utf</i>(7)</a>), which has a couple
+ of effects. First, the return value of <tt><font size=+1>yylex()</font></tt> no longer fits
+ in a <tt><font size=+1>short</font></tt>; second, the starting value for non-terminals is now
+ 0xE000 rather than 257.<br>
+ The generated parser can be recursive: actions can call <i>yyparse</i>,
+ for example to implement a sort of <tt><font size=+1>#include</font></tt> statement in an interpreter.<br>
+ Finally, some undocumented inner workings of the parser have been
+ changed, which may affect programs that know too much about its
+ structure.<br>
+
+ </table>
+
+</table>
+<p><font size=+1><b>FILES </b></font><br>
+
+<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ <tt><font size=+1>y.output<br>
+ y.tab.c<br>
+ y.tab.h<br>
+ y.debug<br>
+ y.tmp.*</font></tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;temporary file<br>
+ <tt><font size=+1>y.acts.*</font></tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;temporary file<br>
+ <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/lib/yaccpar<br>
+ </font></tt>
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ parser prototype<br>
+
+ </table>
+
+ </table>
+ <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/lib/yaccpars<br>
+ </font></tt>
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+
+ <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ parser prototype using stdio<br>
+
+ </table>
+
+ </table>
+
+</table>
+<p><font size=+1><b>SOURCE </b></font><br>
+
+<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/yacc.c<br>
+ </font></tt>
+</table>
+<p><font size=+1><b>SEE ALSO </b></font><br>
+
+<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ <a href="../man1/lex.html"><i>lex</i>(1)</a><br>
+ S. C. Johnson and R. Sethi, &#8220;Yacc: A parser generator&#8221;, <i>Unix Research
+ System Programmer&#8217;s Manual,</i> Tenth Edition, Volume 2<br>
+ B. W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, <i>The UNIX Programming Environment,</i>
+ Prentice Hall, 1984<br>
+
+</table>
+<p><font size=+1><b>BUGS </b></font><br>
+
+<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr height=2><td><tr><td width=20><td>
+
+ The parser may not have full information when it writes to <tt><font size=+1>y.debug</font></tt>
+ so that the names of the tokens returned by <tt><font size=+1>yylex</font></tt> may be missing.<br>
+
+</table>
+
+<td width=20>
+<tr height=20><td>
+</table>
+<!-- TRAILER -->
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+<tr><td><td>
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