Synopsis

Berkeley Yacc (byacc) is generally conceded to be the best yacc variant available. In contrast to bison, it is written to avoid dependencies upon a particular compiler.

History

Byacc was written around 1990 by Robert Corbett who is the original author of bison. Originally written in K&R C, I have modified it to conform to ANSI C, and made other improvements.

See the changelog for details. Here is a summary of the amount of change (prompted by a discussion of licensing).


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