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.!	Date of last revision: June 21, 1992
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.!	Eric Youngdale
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1 BISON
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 The BISON command invokes the GNU BISON parser generator.
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      BISON file-spec
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2 Parameters
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 file-spec
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Here file-spec is the grammar file name, which usually ends in
.y.  The parser file's name is made by replacing the .y
with _tab.c.  Thus, the command bison foo.y yields
foo_tab.c.

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2 Qualifiers
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 The following is the list of available qualifiers for BISON:
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	/DEBUG
	/DEFINES
	/FILE_PREFIX=prefix
	/FIXED_OUTFILES
	/NAME_PREFIX=prefix
	/NOLINES
	/OUTPUT=outfilefile
	/VERBOSE
	/VERSION
	/YACC
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2 /DEBUG
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Output a definition of the macro YYDEBUG into the parser file,
so that the debugging facilities are compiled.
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2 /DEFINES
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Write an extra output file containing macro definitions for the token
type names defined in the grammar and the semantic value type
YYSTYPE, as well as a extern variable declarations.
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If the parser output file is named "name.c" then this file
is named "name.h".
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This output file is essential if you wish to put the definition of
yylex in a separate source file, because yylex needs to
be able to refer to token type codes and the variable
yylval.
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2 /FILE_PREFIX
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  /FILIE_PREFIX=prefix
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	Specify a prefix to use for all Bison output file names.  The names are
chosen as if the input file were named prefix.c

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2 /FIXED_OUTFILES
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Equivalent to /OUTPUT=y_tab.c; the parser output file is called
y_tab.c, and the other outputs are called y.output and
y_tab.h.  The purpose of this switch is to imitate Yacc's output
file name conventions.  The /YACC qualifier is functionally equivalent
to /FIXED_OUTFILES.  The following command definition will
work as a substitute for Yacc:

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$YACC:==BISON/FIXED_OUTFILES
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2 /NAME_PREFIX
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  /NAME_PREFIX=prefix
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Rename the external symbols used in the parser so that they start with
"prefix" instead of "yy".  The precise list of symbols renamed
is yyparse, yylex, yyerror, yylval, yychar and yydebug.

For example, if you use /NAME_PREFIX="c", the names become cparse,
clex, and so on.

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2 /NOLINES
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Don't put any "#line" preprocessor commands in the parser file.
Ordinarily Bison puts them in the parser file so that the C compiler
and debuggers will associate errors with your source file, the
grammar file.  This option causes them to associate errors with the
parser file, treating it an independent source file in its own right.

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2 /OUTPUT
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  /OUTPUT=outfile
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Specify the name "outfile" for the parser file.
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2 /VERBOSE
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Write an extra output file containing verbose descriptions of the
parser states and what is done for each type of look-ahead token in
that state.
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This file also describes all the conflicts, both those resolved by
operator precedence and the unresolved ones.
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The file's name is made by removing _tab.c or .c from
the parser output file name, and adding .output instead.
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Therefore, if the input file is foo.y, then the parser file is
called foo_tab.c by default.  As a consequence, the verbose
output file is called foo.output.
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2 /VERSION
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Print the version number of Bison.

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2 /YACC
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See /FIXED_OUTFILES.
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