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bison-3.8.2p0

GNU parser generator

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Description

"Bison" is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you may use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages. Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. You need to be fluent in C programming in order to use Bison.

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Ports path
devel/bison
Package architecture
amd64
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The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
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