Message-Id: <s19716cd.015@MAIL.TAIT.CO.NZ>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 11:02:06 +1200
From: Bill Currie <bill_currie AT MAIL DOT TAIT DOT CO DOT NZ>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:  Re: Bison info.

On 11/5/96  8:51 pm, Christoph P. Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>
did thus say >>>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  I'm just wondering if there is a faq for Bison. I just started working with
> > Bison and I'm wondering if it will do what I need for a script system.
> > 
> >  Can I use Bison for defining functions, procedures in a script? 
> 
> I don't know if I exactly understand your intention
> but to learn about using bison I'd recommend to read LEX/YACC documentation
> Whether BISON/YACC is feasible depends a bit on the syntax you want to
> parse. A good book is also 'Compiler Construction with UNIX' by Axel T.
> Schreiner.

or 'Compiler Design in C' by Allen I. Holub (sp?).  I found this to be an
excelent book (has full source code for semi-clones of LEX and YACC, a subset of
curses and a C compiler (minus bitfields and floating point).)

Bill