Manual for the AGFL system

The GEN parser generator version 1.8
Preliminary version: do not copy or distribute

January 10, 2000

	C.F. Derksen & J.I. Potjer
	Computing Science Institute
	University of Nijmegen
	Toernooiveld 1
	6525 ED Nijmegen
	The Netherlands
phone:	+31 24 3652229
e-mail:	agfl@cs.kun.nl

 

 

• Contents
• Introduction
  • The AGFL system
    • Copyright and License Information
    • Availability and Support
  • Outline of this Manual
• Parsing
  • Lexical analysis
    • Definitions
    • Terminal symbols
      • Syntax terminals
      • Regular expression terminal
    • Lexical Analysis
    • Match priorities
      • Terminal symbol type
      • The number of tokens
      • Matched invisible characters
    • Character Substitution
  • Syntactic analysis
    • Number of parses
    • Semantics of the commit
      • Order of crossing commits
      • Scope of a commit
      • Commits in a group of guards
• The AGFL System
  • The GEN Parser Generator
    • Compiling a Grammar
    • Options
    • Examples
  • The LEXGEN Lexicon-System
    • The Interface Definition
    • The Lexical Database
    • System Overview
    • Lexicon Modularization
      • Merging Lexicon Modules
    • Restrictions
    • DOS
• Generated Parsers
  • Description
  • Options
  • Grammar Profiles and Counters
    • Profiling Grammars
    • Counters
  • Examples
• Installing the AGFL system
  • Installation Guide for Unix
    • Package Installation
    • Environment Configuration
  • Installation Guide for MS-DOS
    • Installing the AGFL-system
    • Configuring your system
    • Generating a parser using MS-DOS
    • Generating a parser using MS-Windows
    • Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting
• Sample Sessions
  • The Fib-grammar
    • Compiling the grammar
    • Running the parser
  • The MEKO-grammar
    • Compiling the grammar
    • Running the parser
      • Interactive mode
      • Batch mode
  • Wildcards
• Bibliography
• Changes
  • New features
• Errors and bugs
  • Error messages
    • Normal error messages
      • Guard parameter
      • Second definition
      • Rule is not defined
    • Strange error messages
      • Aborted in line 1184 of id
      • Aborted in line 1195 of id
      • seek failed, OS error
  • Bugs
    • Lexicon
      • Lexicon-specifications
      • Hyphen
    • Grammar
      • Non-hierarchical affix-set
      • Transduction of a affix-terminal
      • Repetition of an affix rule
    • Analysis
      • Lexical analysis of word-separators
    • Commit and penalty
  • Bug messages by parser
    • CatchSignal
    • print set affix
• The MEKO Grammar
  • meko.gra
  • meko.def
  • meko.dat
• About this document ...