Effective Flex & Bison

Effective Flex & Bison

With a nontrivial learning curve on GNU Flex and Bison, most programmers are content to stop twiddling with their grammars as soon as they empirically work. However, like any other tools, there are better and worse ways to use them. "Effective Flex & Bison" is a collection of best practices to fine-tune your parsers for speed, maintainability, and robustness.