tool: PRE-CC Xtended

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Language:	BNF (very extended), yacc
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: BNF

category: compiler generators and related tools summary, or expanded.

category: text manipulation summary, or expanded.

language: yacc