User Documentation

Tutorials

• Base tutorial (Chapter 3 of the original thesis):  http://sablecc.sourceforge.net/thesis/thesis.html#PAGE21
• Another tutorial by Fidel Viegas:  http://www.brainycreatures.org/compiler/sablecc.asp (via Internet Archive Wayback Machine, until the main site is back online:  http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090611141114/http://www.brainycreatures.org/compiler/sablecc.asp)

Grammars

Please visit the GrammarPage.

Concrete to Abstract Syntax Trees (CST -> AST)

• A tutorial by Nat Pryce:  http://www.natpryce.com/articles/000531.html

Using SableCC in Eclipse

Here is a nice tutorial on how to setup SableCC in your Eclipse development environment:  http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~sethhetu/rooms/Tutorials/EclipseAndSableCC.html.

Using SableCC in Eclipse 3.3

Here is a nice eclipse plugin developed by kun deng for your Eclipse environment:  http://cse.unl.edu/~kdeng/myweb/fun/code/code.html

Alternative Output (SableCC 3.x)

Indrek Mandre has developed an alternative output module for SableCC 3.x which generates C#, C++, O'Caml, Python, C, dotgraph, and xml code.

See:  http://www.mare.ee/indrek/sablecc/.

Definitive Reference

The original thesis:

Online	http://sablecc.sourceforge.net/thesis/thesis.html
HTML	http://sablecc.sourceforge.net/downloads/thesis.html.zip
PDF	http://sablecc.sourceforge.net/downloads/thesis.pdf
PS	http://sablecc.sourceforge.net/downloads/thesis.ps.zip

Other Documentation (Old Site)

The documentation page of the old site is located at  http://sablecc.sourceforge.net/documentation.html.

HOWTO

LexerUnitTests - Writing unit tests for your lexer rules

Compiler Design Textbooks Which Use SableCC

Appel, Andrew, Modern Compiler Implementation in Java (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Bergmann, Seth D., Compiler Design: Theory, Tools, and Examples, (available free at  http://cs.rowan.edu/~bergmann/books)

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