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Bison Options
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   Bison supports both traditional single-letter options and mnemonic
long option names.  Long option names are indicated with `--' instead of
`-'.  Abbreviations for option names are allowed as long as they are
unique.  When a long option takes an argument, like `--file-prefix',
connect the option name and the argument with `='.

   Here is a list of options that can be used with Bison, alphabetized
by short option.  It is followed by a cross key alphabetized by long
option.

Operations modes:
`-h'
`--help'
     Print a summary of the command-line options to Bison and exit.

`-V'
`--version'
     Print the version number of Bison and exit.

`-y'
`--yacc'
`--fixed-output-files'
     Equivalent to `-o y.tab.c'; the parser output file is called
     `y.tab.c', and the other outputs are called `y.output' and
     `y.tab.h'.  The purpose of this option is to imitate Yacc's output
     file name conventions.  Thus, the following shell script can
     substitute for Yacc:

          bison -y $*

Tuning the parser:

`-S FILE'
`--skeleton=FILE'
     Specify the skeleton to use.  You probably don't need this option
     unless you are developing Bison.

`-t'
`--debug'
     In the parser file, define the macro `YYDEBUG' to 1 if it is not
     already defined, so that the debugging facilities are compiled.
     Note: Debugging Your Parser.

`--locations'
     Pretend that `%locations' was specified.  Note: Decl Summary.

`-p PREFIX'
`--name-prefix=PREFIX'
     Pretend that `%name-prefix="PREFIX"' was specified.  Note: Decl
     Summary.

`-l'
`--no-lines'
     Don't put any `#line' preprocessor commands in the parser file.
     Ordinarily Bison puts them in the parser file so that the C
     compiler and debuggers will associate errors with your source
     file, the grammar file.  This option causes them to associate
     errors with the parser file, treating it as an independent source
     file in its own right.

`-n'
`--no-parser'
     Pretend that `%no-parser' was specified.  Note: Decl Summary.

`-k'
`--token-table'
     Pretend that `%token-table' was specified.  Note: Decl Summary.

Adjust the output:

`-d'
`--defines'
     Pretend that `%defines' was specified, i.e., write an extra output
     file containing macro definitions for the token type names defined
     in the grammar and the semantic value type `YYSTYPE', as well as a
     few `extern' variable declarations.  Note: Decl Summary.

`--defines=DEFINES-FILE'
     Same as above, but save in the file DEFINES-FILE.

`-b FILE-PREFIX'
`--file-prefix=PREFIX'
     Pretend that `%verbose' was specified, i.e, specify prefix to use
     for all Bison output file names. Note: Decl Summary.

`-v'
`--verbose'
     Pretend that `%verbose' was specified, i.e, write an extra output
     file containing verbose descriptions of the grammar and parser.
     Note: Decl Summary.

`-o FILENAME'
`--output=FILENAME'
     Specify the FILENAME for the parser file.

     The other output files' names are constructed from FILENAME as
     described under the `-v' and `-d' options.

`-g'
     Output a VCG definition of the LALR(1) grammar automaton computed
     by Bison. If the grammar file is `foo.y', the VCG output file will
     be `foo.vcg'.

`--graph=GRAPH-FILE'
     The behaviour of -GRAPH is the same than `-g'. The only difference
     is that it has an optionnal argument which is the name of the
     output graph filename.