NAME¶

lemon — The Lemon Parser Generator

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

lemon is an LALR(1) parser generator for C or C++. It does the same job as bison and yacc. But lemon is not another bison or yacc clone. It uses a different grammar syntax which is designed to reduce the number of coding errors. lemon also uses a more sophisticated parsing engine that is faster than yacc and bison and which is both reentrant and thread-safe. Furthermore, lemon implements features that can be used to eliminate resource leaks, making is suitable for use in long-running programs such as graphical user interfaces or embedded controllers.

lemon will read the grammer from input and write out a parser for that grammar in the C language.

OPTIONS¶

-b

Print only the basis in report.

-c

Don't compress the action table.

-g

Print grammar without actions.

-m

Output a makeheaders compatible file.

-q

(Quiet) Don't print the report file.

-s

Print parser stats to standard output.

-x

Print the version number.

FILES¶

/usr/share/lemon/lempar.c

Driver template for the lemon parser generator.

AUTHOR¶

lemon has been written by D. Richard Hipp ⟨drh@hwaci.com⟩.

This manual page was written by Guus Sliepen ⟨guus@debian.org⟩ for the Debian GNU/Linux system.