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Yacc - Grammar language

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Yacc, aka Yet Another Compiler-Compiler, is a grammar language created in 1975.

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Yacc (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) is a computer program for the Unix operating system. It is a Look Ahead Left-to-Right (LALR) parser generator, generating a parser, the part of a compiler that tries to make syntactic sense of the source code, specifically a LALR parser, based on an analytic grammar written in a notation similar to Backus–Naur Form (BNF). Yacc itself used to be available as the default parser generator on most Unix systems, though it has since been supplanted as the default by more recent, largely compatible, programs.. Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from Linguist:
%{ /* * Test program: Advanced Calculator * by Zhao Cheng 5/20/2012 */ %} %union { double val; /* For returning numbers. */ symrec *tptr; /* For returning symbol-table pointers. */ } %token <val> NUMBER %token <tptr> VAR FNCT %right '=' %left '+' '-' %left '*' '/' %right '^' %left NEG %type <val> expression %{ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <math.h> #include "calc.h" /* Contains definition of `symrec'. */ %} %% statement : /* empty */ { exit(0); } | expression { printf("= %f\n", $1); } ; expression : NUMBER { $$ = $1; } | VAR { $$ = $1->value.var; } | VAR '=' expression { $$ = $3; $1->value.var = $3; } | FNCT '(' expression ')' { $$ = (*($1->value.fnctptr))($3); } | expression '*' expression { $$ = $1 * $3; } | expression '/' expression { $$ = $1 / $3; } | expression '+' expression { $$ = $1 + $3; } | expression '-' expression { $$ = $1 - $3; } | expression '^' expression { $$ = pow($1, $3); } | '-' expression %prec NEG { $$ = -$2; } | '(' expression ')' { $$ = $2; } ; %% struct init { char const *fname; double (*fnct) (double); }; struct init const arith_fncts[] = { "sin" , sin , "asin" , asin , "cos" , cos , "acos" , acos , "tan" , tan , "atan" , atan , "ceil" , ceil , "floor" , floor , "abs" , fabs , "ln" , log , "log" , log10 , "lg" , log2 , "exp" , exp , "sqrt" , sqrt , 0 , 0 }; /* The symbol table: a chain of `struct symrec'. */ symrec *sym_table; /* Put arithmetic functions in table. */ void init_table (void) { int i; symrec *ptr; for (i = 0; arith_fncts[i].fname != 0; i++) { ptr = putsym (arith_fncts[i].fname, FNCT); ptr->value.fnctptr = arith_fncts[i].fnct; } } int main() { init_table(); while (yyparse() == 0) ; return 0; } void yyerror(const char *msg) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: %s\n", msg); } symrec * putsym (char const *sym_name, int sym_type) { symrec *ptr; ptr = (symrec *) malloc (sizeof (symrec)); ptr->name = (char *) malloc (strlen (sym_name) + 1); strcpy (ptr->name,sym_name); ptr->type = sym_type; ptr->value.var = 0; /* Set value to 0 even if fctn. */ ptr->next = (struct symrec *)sym_table; sym_table = ptr; return ptr; } symrec * getsym (char const *sym_name) { symrec *ptr; for (ptr = sym_table; ptr != (symrec *) 0; ptr = (symrec *)ptr->next) if (strcmp (ptr->name,sym_name) == 0) return ptr; return 0; }

Language features

Feature Supported Token Example
MultiLine Comments ✓ /* */
/* A comment
*/
Comments ✓
// A comment
Line Comments ✓ //
// A comment
Semantic Indentation X

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