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Byacc was written around 1990 by Robert Corbett who is the original author of bison. Byacc is noted in Lex & Yacc by John Levine et al (O'Reilly, 1992) for its compatibility with the original yacc program.

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Later, I was reminded of the differences between byacc and bison, when the latter dumped core attempting to build the bind program. Since that point, I have used byacc except for those programs that have been modified to rely upon bison.

ANSI C of course refers to c89, not c99 or gcc. The latter have features which are useful in a few specific applications, but none of those include programs such as byacc. In contrast, bison in its different versions has dependencies on gcc or c99.

Some additional amount of compatibility with bison would be useful (to me, and others), with the caveat that bison itself is no longer compatible with yacc. The most obvious difference was the support for reentrant code, which has evolved in byacc to the point where it can be compared and tuned against bison.

However, even after factoring out that feature, there are a few of the half-dozen or so programs that I have seen using bison's reentrancy feature which are also relying upon inferences which do not appear to match yacc (and some investigation is needed to isolate the exact problem). Ironically, one of bison's maintainers advised the developers of "new" flex to avoid making their program incompatible with the POSIX lex. Again, my motivation for working on relocalizable flex was that "new" flex was incompatible with both "old" flex and POSIX lex.

Before starting, please check to see if there is a latest version available to download. Visit to find out about the available versions. IMPORTANT: See "Configuring Ubuntu Linux After Installation" to install the development tools required to compile and install bison from source code.

There were two major replacements for Yacc, Berkeley Yacc (byacc) and GNU Bison, the first is in the public domain, while the other obviously uses the GPL License. The original author of both software was Robert Corbett and, confusingly, byacc was originally called bison. Furthermore Bison was not originally compatible with Yacc, but it was made compatible by Richard Stallman, who brought it into the GNU world. In the meantime, Corbett rewrote byacc from scratch to be compatible with Yacc. Byacc was originally the most popular version of Yacc-compatible software, but now is GNU Bison (byacc is still developed). There are also ports of Bison in other languages.

i have installed the flex,bison,dev-cpp in windows xp. icopied the progrm from the example given and saved as lex.l and kkk.y. but while running in command prompt it shows the error of flex:can't open lex.l and also same for bison.plz clarify me.

From: Akim Demaille To: GNU Announcements List Subject: bison-3.0 released [stable] Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:09:01 +0200Message-ID: Archive-link: Article, Thread The Bison team is very happy to announce the release of Bison 3.0, whichintroduces many new features. An executive summary would include: (i) deepoverhaul/improvements of the diagnostics, (ii) more versatile means todescribe semantic value types (including the ability to store genuine C++objects in C++ parsers), (iii) push-parser interface extended to Java, and(iv) parse-time semantic predicates for GLR parsers.Here are the compressed sources: -3.0.tar.gz (3.1MB) -3.0.tar.xz (1.8MB)Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: -3.0.tar.gz.sig -3.0.tar.xz.sigUse a mirror for higher download bandwidth: [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig fileand the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify bison-3.0.tar.gz.sigIf that command fails because you don't have the required public key,then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 0DDCAA3278D5264Eand rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.69 Automake 1.14 Flex 2.5.37 Gettext 0.18.3 Gnulib v0.0-7982-g03e96ccNEWS* Noteworthy changes in release 3.0 (2013-07-25) [stable]** WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities! Like other GNU packages, Bison will start using some of the C99 features for its own code, especially the definition of variables after statements. The generated C parsers still aim at C90.** Backward incompatible changes*** Obsolete features Support for YYFAIL is removed (deprecated in Bison 2.4.2): use YYERROR. Support for yystype and yyltype is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875): use YYSTYPE and YYLTYPE. Support for YYLEX_PARAM and YYPARSE_PARAM is removed (deprecated in Bison 1.875): use %lex-param, %parse-param, or %param. Missing semicolons at the end of actions are no longer added (as announced in the release 2.5).*** Use of YACC='bison -y' TL;DR: With Autoconf lr.default-reduction lr.keep-unreachable-states -> lr.keep-unreachable-state namespace -> api.namespace stype -> api.value.type** Semantic predicates Contributed by Paul Hilfinger. The new, experimental, semantic-predicate feature allows actions of the form "%? BOOLEAN-EXPRESSION ", which cause syntax errors (as for YYERROR) if the expression evaluates to 0, and are evaluated immediately in GLR parsers, rather than being deferred. The result is that they allow the programmer to prune possible parses based on the values of run-time expressions.** The directive %expect-rr is now an error in non GLR mode It used to be an error only if used in non GLR mode, _and_ if there are reduce/reduce conflicts.** Tokens are numbered in their order of appearance Contributed by Valentin Tolmer. With '%token A B', A had a number less than the one of B. However, precedence declarations used to generate a reversed order. This is now fixed, and introducing tokens with any of %token, %left, %right, %precedence, or %nonassoc yields the same result. When mixing declarations of tokens with a litteral character (e.g., 'a') or with an identifier (e.g., B) in a precedence declaration, Bison numbered the litteral characters first. For example %right A B 'c' 'd' would lead to the tokens declared in this order: 'c' 'd' A B. Again, the input order is now preserved. These changes were made so that one can remove useless precedence and associativity declarations (i.e., map %nonassoc, %left or %right to %precedence, or to %token) and get exactly the same output.** Useless precedence and associativity Contributed by Valentin Tolmer. When developing and maintaining a grammar, useless associativity and precedence directives are common. They can be a nuisance: new ambiguities arising are sometimes masked because their conflicts are resolved due to the extra precedence or associativity information. Furthermore, it can hinder the comprehension of a new grammar: one will wonder about the role of a precedence, where in fact it is useless. The following changes aim at detecting and reporting these extra directives.*** Precedence warning category A new category of warning, -Wprecedence, was introduced. It flags the useless precedence and associativity directives.*** Useless associativity Bison now warns about symbols with a declared associativity that is never used to resolve conflicts. In that case, using %precedence is sufficient; the parsing tables will remain unchanged. Solving these warnings may raise useless precedence warnings, as the symbols no longer have associativity. For example: %left '+' %left '*' %% exp: "number" exp '+' "number" exp '*' exp ; will produce a warning: useless associativity for '+', use %precedence [-Wprecedence] %left '+' ^^^*** Useless precedence Bison now warns about symbols with a declared precedence and no declared associativity (i.e., declared with %precedence), and whose precedence is never used. In that case, the symbol can be safely declared with %token instead, without modifying the parsing tables. For example: %precedence '=' %% exp: "var" '=' "number"; will produce a warning: useless precedence for '=' [-Wprecedence] %precedence '=' ^^^*** Useless precedence and associativity In case of both useless precedence and associativity, the issue is flagged as follows: %nonassoc '=' %% exp: "var" '=' "number"; The warning is: warning: useless precedence and associativity for '=' [-Wprecedence] %nonassoc '=' ^^^** Empty rules With help from Joel E. Denny and Gabriel Rassoul. Empty rules (i.e., with an empty right-hand side) can now be explicitly marked by the new %empty directive. Using %empty on a non-empty rule is an error. The new -Wempty-rule warning reports empty rules without %empty. On the following grammar: %% s: a b c; a: ; b: %empty; c: 'a' %empty; bison reports: 3.4-5: warning: empty rule without %empty [-Wempty-rule] a: ^^ 5.8-13: error: %empty on non-empty rule c: 'a' %empty ; ^^^^^^** Java skeleton improvements The constants for token names were moved to the Lexer interface. Also, it is possible to add code to the parser's constructors using "%code init" and "%define init_throws". Contributed by Paolo Bonzini. The Java skeleton now supports push parsing. Contributed by Dennis Heimbigner.** C++ skeletons improvements*** The parser header is no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc) Using %defines is now optional. Without it, the needed support classes are defined in the generated parser, instead of additional files (such as location.hh, position.hh and stack.hh).*** Locations are no longer mandatory (lalr1.cc, glr.cc) Both lalr1.cc and glr.cc no longer require %location.*** syntax_error exception (lalr1.cc) The C++ parser features a syntax_error exception, which can be thrown from the scanner or from user rules to raise syntax errors. This facilitates reporting errors caught in sub-functions (e.g., rejecting too large integral literals from a conversion function used by the scanner, or rejecting invalid combinations from a factory invoked by the user actions).*** %define api.value.type variant This is based on a submission from Michiel De Wilde. With help from Théophile Ranquet. In this mode, complex C++ objects can be used as semantic values. For instance: %token TEXT; %token NUMBER; %token SEMICOLON ";" %type item; %type list; %% result: list { std::cout