About:
Bison is a parser generator in the style of yacc(1). It should be upwardly compatible with input files designed for yacc.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
Several new directives were added. GLR grammars now support locations. %token numbers can now be hexadecimal integers. A POSIX conformant yacc command and -ly library installation can now be disabled at build. Numbers are no longer arbitrarily limited to 16-bit counts. Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires. Bison-generated parsers no longer default to using the alloca function to extend the parser stack. Furthermore, there have been incompatible changes to error token location, semicolon handling, and NUL byte and newline handling.

Author:
Robert Corbett, Richard Stallman and Wilfred Hansen <bison __at__ gnu __dot__ org> [contact developer]

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8.27/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/bison/
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bison/

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Software Development

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.1	16-Oct-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.1	N/A	16-Oct-2005 08:45
2.0	Major feature enhancements	25-Jan-2005 18:53
1.875	Minor bugfixes	12-Jan-2003 19:38
1.75	Major bugfixes	17-Oct-2002 16:55
1.35	Minor bugfixes	10-Apr-2002 15:25
1.34	Minor bugfixes	13-Mar-2002 15:25
1.32	Minor bugfixes	25-Jan-2002 18:29
1.28	N/A	07-Jul-1999 03:31
1.27	N/A	18-Feb-1999 11:52
1.26a	N/A	14-Feb-1999 04:32

 Articles referencing this project

• Lemon Parser Generator Tutorial
  by Mike Chirico , in Tutorials
  Sat, Aug 14th 2004 00:00