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author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000 |
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committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000 |
commit | d6583bb2a13f329cf0332ef2570eb8bb8fc0e39c (patch) | |
tree | ece253b876159b39c620e62b6c9b1174642e070e /usr.bin/yacc/yacc.1 |
initial import of NetBSD tree
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diff --git a/usr.bin/yacc/yacc.1 b/usr.bin/yacc/yacc.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..93191ba654c --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/yacc/yacc.1 @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Robert Paul Corbett. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)yacc.1 5.7 (Berkeley) 7/30/91 +.\" $Id: yacc.1,v 1.1 1995/10/18 08:47:06 deraadt Exp $ +.\" +.Dd July 30, 1991 +.Dt YACC 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm yacc +.Nd an +.Tn LALR(1) +parser generator +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm yacc +.Op Fl dlrtv +.Op Fl b Ar prefix +.Ar filename +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Yacc +reads the grammar specification in the file +.Ar filename +and generates an +.Tn LR(1) +parser for it. +The parsers consist of a set of +.Tn LALR(1) +parsing tables and a driver routine +written in the C programming language. +.Nm Yacc +normally writes the parse tables and the driver routine to the file +.Pa y.tab.c . +.Pp +The following options are available: +.Bl -tag -width Ar +.It Fl b Ar prefix +The +.Fl b +option changes the prefix prepended to the output file names to +the string denoted by +.Ar prefix . +The default prefix is the character +.Ar y . +.It Fl d +The +.Fl d +option causes the header file +.Pa y.tab.h +to be written. +.It Fl l +If the +.Fl l +option is not specified, +.Nm yacc +will insert #line directives in the generated code. +The #line directives let the C compiler relate errors in the +generated code to the user's original code. +If the +.Fl l +option is specified, +.Nm yacc +will not insert the #line directives. +#line directives specified by the user will be retained. +.It Fl r +The +.Fl r +option causes +.Nm yacc +to produce separate files for code and tables. +The code file is named +.Pa y.code.c , +and the tables file is named +.Pa y.tab.c . +.It Fl t +The +.Fl t +option changes the preprocessor directives generated by +.Nm yacc +so that debugging statements will be incorporated in the compiled code. +.It Fl v +The +.Fl v +option causes a human-readable description of the generated parser to +be written to the file +.Pa y.output . +.Pp +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +The following environment variable is referenced by +.Nm yacc : +.Bl -tag -width TMPDIR +.It Ev TMPDIR +If the environment variable +.Ev TMPDIR +is set, the string denoted by +.Ev TMPDIR +will be used as the name of the directory where the temporary +files are created. +.El +.Sh TABLES +The names of the tables generated by this version of +.Nm yacc +are +.Dq yylhs , +.Dq yylen , +.Dq yydefred , +.Dq yydgoto , +.Dq yysindex , +.Dq yyrindex , +.Dq yygindex , +.Dq yytable , +and +.Dq yycheck . +Two additional tables, +.Dq yyname +and +.Dq yyrule , +are created if +.Dv YYDEBUG +is defined and non-zero. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /tmp/yacc.uXXXXXXXX -compact +.It Pa y.code.c +.It Pa y.tab.c +.It Pa y.tab.h +.It Pa y.output +.It Pa /tmp/yacc.aXXXXXX +.It Pa /tmp/yacc.tXXXXXX +.It Pa /tmp/yacc.uXXXXXX +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +If there are rules that are never reduced, the number of such rules is +written to the standard error. +If there are any +.Tn LALR(1) +conflicts, the number of conflicts is also written +to the standard error. +.\" .Sh SEE ALSO +.\" .Xr yyfix 1 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Nm yacc +utility conforms to +.St -p1003.2 . |