I need to cook up a C parser written in Java and writing the lexer and parser from scratch would be painful, so if anybody knows of parser generators that output Java code ( like yacc ) and a lexer generator that output's Java code I'd be grateful thanks Sridhar
There are a couple major ones. JavaCC is one, and of course I can't remember the other. Donno if you're going to find a C++ grammar. Good luck! This is not simple stuff!
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ANTLR is the other big one; see http://www.antlr.org/ . I've used both JavaCC and ANTLR, and prefer ANTLR's expressiveness. ANTLR comes with an example parser for simplified C, but there is a complete GNU C parser and translator available at the ANTLR web site.
Thanks a lot, I'll check out ANTLR and JavaCC. Another thing though... I was doing a Google search and I came across BYacc. The homepage says normal yacc code can be reused and that it generates Java source for a parser. If anybody has some feedback about the effectiveness of BYacc vis-a-vis ANTLR, I'd be grateful. Thanks, Sridhar
