Dain, Julia Anne (1985) Error recovery for YACC parsers. Coventry, UK: University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science. (Department of Computer Science Research Report). (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The aim to improve error recovery in parsers generated by the LALR parser-generator Yacc. We describe an error recovery scheme which a new version of Yacc automatically builds into its parsers. The scheme uses state information to attempt to repair input which is syntactically incorrect. Repair by alteration of a single token is attempted first, followed by replacement of a phrase of the input. A parser for the C language is generated from existing specifications and tested on a collection of student programs. The quality of error recovery and diagnostic messages is found to be higher than that of the existing portable C compiler. The new version of Yacc may be used by any current user Yacc, with minor modifications to their existing specifications, to produce systems with enhanced syntax error recovery.

Item Type:	Report
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Computer Science
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Parsing (Computer grammar)
Series Name:	Department of Computer Science Research Report
Publisher:	University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science
Place of Publication:	Coventry, UK
Official Date:	October 1985
Dates:	Date Event October 1985 Completion
Number:	Number 73
Number of Pages:	7
DOI:	CS-RR-073
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Computer Science
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Unpublished
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