Re: Practical LALR(1) grammer?

haberg@math.su.se (Hans Aberg)
13 Jun 2005 10:50:59 -0400

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From: haberg@math.su.se (Hans Aberg)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Jun 2005 10:50:59 -0400
Organization: Mathematics
References: 05-06-074
Keywords: parse, LALR
Posted-Date: 13 Jun 2005 10:50:59 EDT

weltraum@astrocat.de wrote:


> I don't understand the "magic" of LALR(1) yet (in contrast to SLR(1) ),


There is no magic to LALR(1): it is just a cut down version of LR(1), to
save some, in the past, precious computer memory.


> and would be happy if someone could give me some practical LALR(1)
> grammar snippets, which one could recognize as part of some (existing)
> language.


Look around in software packets for the .y file. Or give some more
specific hints as to what you are after for.


--
    Hans Aberg
[I agree, the main appeal of LALR is that its tables used up less of
a 64K address space. -John]


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