language: yacc

Language:
BNF (very extended), yacc
Package:
PRE-CC Xtended
Version:
2.30
Parts:
library, parser generator (LL(oo)), translator(yacc->)
Author:
Peter Breuer
Location:
ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/pub/Programs/preccx.tar.Z (Unix) ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/pub/Programs/preccx.msdos (MS-DOS) ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/pub/Documents/techpapers/Jonathan.Bowen/preccx-uug.ps.Z (more recent versions available by subscription) URL: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/redo/precc.html
Description:
PRECCX is an infinite-lookahead compiler compiler for context dependent grammars. The generated code is ANSI C.

Specification scripts are in very EBNF with inherited and synthetic attributes allowed. Scripts can be compiled in separate modules, and linked together later. Meta-production rules allowed. The technology is essentially LL(oo) with optimizations. A converter for yacc scripts is available.

Reference:
"The PRECC Compiler-Compiler" by P.T. Breuer and J.P. Bowen. In E. Davies and A. Findlay (eds.), Proc. UKUUG/SUKUG Joint New Year 1993 Conference, St. Cross Centre, Oxford, UK, 6-8 January 1993, ISBN 1 873611 06 4 (UKUUG), 0 9520700 0 6 (SUKUG) UKUUG/SUKUG Secretariat, Owles Hall, Buntingford, Herts SG9 9PL, UK, pp 167-182, 1993.

"A PREttier Compiler-Compiler: Generating Higher Order Parsers in C" P.T. Breuer and J.P. Bowen. Oxford University Computing Laboratory Technical Report PRG-TR-20-92, 25pp, November 1992. Accepted by Software - Practice and Experience, 1994. ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/pub/Documents/techreports/TR-20-92.ps.Z

Ports:
unix, MS-DOS
Contact:
Peter Breuer <ptb@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, Jonathan Bowen <bowen@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Updated:
June 2nd, 1994
Language:
C, C++, Objective-C, yacc, lex, postscript, sh, awk, smalltalk, sed
Package:
the GNU archive sites
Location:
NOTE: Many gnu files are now compressed with gzip. You can tell a gzip'ed file because it has a lower-case .z or .gz rather than the capital .Z that compress uses.

Gzip is available from these same archives ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/*

usa:
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors4/gnu/* ftp://ftp.cs.widener.edu/pub/src/gnu/* ftp://uxc.cso.uiuc.edu/gnu/* ftp://col.hp.com/mirrors/gnu/* ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU/* ftp://ftp.uu.net/packages/gnu/*
japan:
ftp://ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp/ ftp://utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ftpsync/prep/*
australia:
ftp://archie.au/gnu/*
europe:
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu/* ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/GNU/*/* [re-org'ed] ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/gnu/* ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/gnu/* ftp://ugle.unit.no/pub/gnu/* ftp://isy.liu.se/pub/gnu/* ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/gnu/* ftp://sunic.sunet.se/pub/gnu/* [re-org'ed] ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/gnu/* ftp://ftp.diku.dk/pub/gnu/* ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/software/gnu/* ftp://archive.eu.net/gnu/* [re-org'ed]
Description:
There are many sites which mirror the master gnu archives which live on prep.ai.mit.edu. Please do not use the master archive without good reason.
Restriction:
Most GNU programs are CopyLeft'ed. That means that they are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License or GNU Library General Public License. The CopyLeft is only a concern if you want to use actual GNU code in your program. Using Gcc or any of the other tools is completely safe from a copyright point-of-view with the sole exception of bison which includes GNU code in its output. If you use a GNU library, you must supply an unlinked version of your program.

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