Re: Q: Documentation tools for compiler/languages ?

stephen@lila.york.ac.uk (stephen parker)
25 Oct 1996 22:09:24 -0400

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From: stephen@lila.york.ac.uk (stephen parker)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 25 Oct 1996 22:09:24 -0400
Organization: a loss for words
References: 96-10-092
Keywords: yacc, lex, parse, tools, documentation

Markus Pizka (pizka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:
: are there any tools that help to document a compiler written by using
: flex and bison ?


It is possible to use a language independent literate programming tool
such as noweb (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nr/noweb/) for this purpose.


: I am looking for something that generates adequate tex-file out of a
: flex or bison specification.


Noweb can be convinced to produce plain TeX, LaTex or html output. the
actual source is not pretty printed but the comments etc can be as fancy
as the formatter allows. noweb also offers indexing of identifiers.


More details can be found in comp.programming.literate, and its FAQ.


Stephen
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