GNU Bison

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GNU bison, commonly known as Bison, is a parser generator that is part of the GNU Project. Bison reads a specification of a context-free language, warns about any parsing ambiguities, and generates a parser (either in C, C++, or Java) which reads sequences of tokens and decides whether the sequence conforms to the syntax specified by the grammar. Bison by default generates LALR parsers but can also create GLR parsers. In POSIX mode, Bison is compatible with Yacc, but also has several extensions over this earlier program. Flex, an automatic lexical analyser, is often used with Bison, to tokenise input data and provide Bison with tokens. Bison was originally written by Robert Corbett in 1985. Later, in 1989, Robert Corbett released another parser generator named Berkeley Yacc. Bison was made Yacc-compatible by Richard Stallman. Bison is free software and is available under the GNU General Public License, with an exception (discussed below) allowing its generated code to be used without triggering the copyleft requirements of the licence.

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GNU Bison Manual: C Scanners with Bison Parsers http://flex.sourceforge.net/manual/Bison-Bridge.html
GNU Bison Manual: Calling Conventions for Pure Parsers https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/Pure-Calling.html
GNU Bison Manual: A Pure (Reentrant) Parser https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/bison.html#Pure-Decl
GNU Bison Manual: Bison Declaration Summary https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/Decl-Summary.html
GNU Bison Manual: Conditions for Using Bison https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/Conditions.html
A source code file, parse-gram.c, which includes the exception http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bison.git/tree/src/parse-gram.c
GCC 3.4 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html
GCC 4.1 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.1/changes.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/parser-stage.html
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/flex-bison/9780596805418/ch04.html
http://octave.org/doxygen/4.0/d5/d60/oct-parse_8cc_source.html
http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html

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