bison Command Examples

GNU parser generator. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/.

• Compile a bison definition file:

bison {{path/to/file.y}}

• Compile in debug mode, which causes the resulting parser to write additional information to stdout:

bison --debug {{path/to/file.y}}

• Specify the output filename:

bison --output {{path/to/output.c}} {{path/to/file.y}}

• Be verbose when compiling:

bison --verbose