The document discusses the YACC tool, which stands for Yet Another Compiler Compiler. YACC is used to produce a parser for a given grammar. It takes a grammar specification file as input in LALR(1) format and generates C source code for a parser as output. The generated parser source code includes parsing tables and function declarations and defines an extern function called yyparse() that can be used to parse input based on the given grammar.
The document discusses the YACC tool, which stands for Yet Another Compiler Compiler. YACC is used to produce a parser for a given grammar. It takes a grammar specification file as input in LALR(1) format and generates C source code for a parser as output. The generated parser source code includes parsing tables and function declarations and defines an extern function called yyparse() that can be used to parse input based on the given grammar.
The document discusses the YACC tool, which stands for Yet Another Compiler Compiler. YACC is used to produce a parser for a given grammar. It takes a grammar specification file as input in LALR(1) format and generates C source code for a parser as output. The generated parser source code includes parsing tables and function declarations and defines an extern function called yyparse() that can be used to parse input based on the given grammar.
The document discusses the YACC tool, which stands for Yet Another Compiler Compiler. YACC is used to produce a parser for a given grammar. It takes a grammar specification file as input in LALR(1) format and generates C source code for a parser as output. The generated parser source code includes parsing tables and function declarations and defines an extern function called yyparse() that can be used to parse input based on the given grammar.
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EXPERIMENT NO:-2
AIM:-Study of YACC tools.
YACC YACC stands for Yet Another Compiler Compiler. YACC provides a tool to produce a parser for a given grammar. YACC is a program designed to compile a LALR (1) grammar. It is used to produce the source code of the syntactic analyzer of the language produced by LALR (1) grammar. The input of YACC is the rule or grammar and the output is a C program.
These are some points about YACC:
Input: A CFG- file.y Output: A parser y.tab.c (yacc) The output file "file.output" contains the parsing tables. The file "file.tab.h" contains declarations. The parser called the yyparse (). Parser expects to use a function called yylex () to get tokens.
The basic operational sequence is as follows:
This file contains the desired grammar in YACC format.
It shows the YACC program.
It is the c source program created by YACC.
C Compiler
Executable file that will parse grammar given in gram.Y
How does this yacc works?
yacc is designed for use with C code and generates a parser written in C. The parser is configured for use in conjunction with a lex-generated scanner and relies on standard shared features (token types, yylval, etc.) and calls the function yylex as a scanner coroutine. You provide a grammar specification file, which is traditionally named using a .y extension. You invoke yacc on the .y file and it creates the y.tab.h and y.tab.c files containing a thousand or so lines of intense C code that implements an efficient LALR (1) parser for your grammar, including the code for the actions you specified. The file provides an extern function yyparse.y that will attempt to successfully parse a valid sentence. You compile that C file normally, link with the rest of your code, and you have a parser! By default, the parser reads from stdin and writes to stdout, just like a lex- generated scanner does.
