Lex and yacc debugger design

Robert Frederick Pickering <pickerr6@cs.man.ac.uk>
17 Oct 1998 01:56:39 -0400

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From: Robert Frederick Pickering <pickerr6@cs.man.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 17 Oct 1998 01:56:39 -0400
Organization: Manchester University
Keywords: lex, yacc, debug, question, comment

As part of a third year project I am building a debugger for lex and
yacc, percifically flex and byacc. It would be very useful to me if I
had user opinions on which error messages are inadequate, how they could
be improved and which bugs in lex and yacc code are totally overlooked.


Thanks
Rob
rfp@cs.man.ac.uk
[I find that the problem isn't getting the yacc or lex source to compile,
it's figuring out why it's not lexing or parsing the language I think
it is. Single stepping and being able to see what the state machine
is doing helps here. -John]


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