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- The -p option can be used to change the symbol prefix to something
- other than "yy" in the generated code. This allows multiple parsers to be
- included in a program. See the man page for further details.
-
- The -P option causes Perl code to be generated. This is useful for
- rapid prototyping of a grammar. In Perl mode, %type, %union, etc., are
- checked, but not used in the output. The user must supply &yylex, &yyerror,
- and a main program to call &yyparse. An example of a simple calculator is
- included. A version of getdate.y that has been modified for Perl yacc is
- also included.
-
- The -r option has been implemented. The -r option tells Yacc to put
- the read-only tables in y.tab.c and the code and variables in y.code.c.
- Keith Bostic asked for this option so that :yyfix could be eliminated.
-
- The -l and -t options have been implemented. The -l option tells Yacc
- not to include #line directives in the code it produces. The -t option
- causes debugging code to be included in the compiled parser.
-
- The code for error recovery has been changed to implement the same
- algorithm as AT&T Yacc. There will still be differences in the way error
- recovery works because AT&T Yacc uses more default reductions than Berkeley
- Yacc.
-
- The environment variable TMPDIR determines the directory where
- temporary files will be created. If TMPDIR is defined, temporary files will
- be created in the directory whose pathname is the value of TMPDIR. By
- default, temporary files are created in /tmp.
-
- The keywords are now case-insensitive. For example, %nonassoc,
- %NONASSOC, %NonAssoc, and %nOnAsSoC are all equivalent.
-
- Commas and semicolons that are not part of C code are treated as
- commentary.
-
- Line-end comments, as in BCPL, are permitted. Line-end comments begin
- with // and end at the next end-of-line. Line-end comments are permitted in
- C code; they are converted to C comments on output.
-
- The form of y.output files has been changed to look more like those
- produced by AT&T Yacc.
-
- A new kind of declaration has been added. The form of the declaration
- is
-
- %ident string
-
- where string is a sequence of characters begining with a double quote and
- ending with either a double quote or the next end-of-line, whichever comes
- first. The declaration will cause a #ident directive to be written near the
- start of the output file.
-
- If a parser has been compiled with debugging code, that code can be
- enabled by setting an environment variable. If the environment variable
- YYDEBUG is set to 0, debugging output is suppressed. If it is set to 1,
- debugging output is written to standard output.
-