Need C language Description

[Jos Vos]

In article <12707 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> cotner at bosco.berkeley.edu writes:
>A friend of mine would like to write a small C compiler for a project.
>(The rest of the class are writing Pascal compilers).  However, he needs
>a formal language description of C, and so far neither one of us have been 
>able to find one.

In "C: A Reference Manual", written by Harbison & Steele, a LALR(1) grammar
is included in an appendix. You *should* be able to feed it to YACC, for
instance, but I have never tried it!

Of course (?), this is only a *syntactic* description, not a *semantic* one.

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