Re: Q: Documentation tools for compiler/languages ?

Florian Krohm <florian@watson.ibm.com>
24 Oct 1996 22:22:42 -0400

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From: Florian Krohm <florian@watson.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Oct 1996 22:22:42 -0400
Organization: IBM Corporation
References: 96-10-092
Keywords: lex, yacc, tools, comment

Markus Pizka wrote:
> are there any tools that help to document a compiler written by using
> flex and bison ?
>
> I am looking for something that generates adequate tex-file out of a
> flex or bison specification.


I once wrote a program to convert yacc/bison input files into a TeX
file. You can choose fonts for terminals/nonterminals and if you wish
so, the rules are nicely aligned by the length of the longest
nonterminal, e.g.


SHORT -> a b c
VERY_LONG_LHS -> BLA BLA


You can get LaTeX as well. Any action code is skipped... If there is
enough interest, I'll dig it out and try to make it available. Let me
know.


Florian
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