PCCTS Resources and "Notes for New Users of PCCTS"

Released on 21 April 2002.

This maintenance release contains about 300 changes to the original PCCTS 1.33 kit, including many fixes and some minor features to make life easier. Sorcerer is now distributed as part of the PCCTS kits.

A detailed description of all changes, fixes, and improvements is available in the file "CHANGES_FROM_133.txt".

This maintenance release contains fixes to (or addresses) almost all publicly known problems of PCCTS based on postings to the comp.compilers.tools.pccts newsgroup.

• Links for downloading PCCTS 1.33MR33 distribution kit
• List of bug fixes and new features since 1.33 MR13
• List of bug fixes and new features prior to 1.33 MR13
• List of known problems in 1.33MR33
• T.J. Parr's ANSI C grammar revised for PCCTS 1.33MR29 (and later)
• A C++ grammar based on T.J. Parr's work for NeXT.

Mailing List

Ready-To-Run

Kenji Tanaka has prepared a ready-to-run version of 1.33MR21 for the Macintosh. This includes antlr, dlg, and sorcerer for both the Motorola 68K and PowerPC.

Ryan Weaver has prepared a ready-to-run version of pccts MR33 for RedHat Linux.

Andrey Zakhvatov has prepared a FreeBSD port for 2.2.8 and 3.2. For additional information see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/devel.html (describes N packages - 125 kBytes).

Skeleton Projects

Juin-Shien Tzeng had prepared a skeleton Borland project for building pccts applications.

Notes for New Users

Version 2 of Notes For New Users of PCCTS and extended examples for C++ mode users

Version 1 of Notes For New Users of PCCTS for C mode users

The PCCTS Reference Book

• Written by T.J. Parr, the designer and author of PCCTS
• ISBN number: 0-9627488-5-4
• This is out of print, but is available on-line
  • PostScript in a .zip file
  • PDF format
    Bookmarks added by Enzo Gomez (Laboratorio de Tecnicas Satelitales - Universidad Nacional de Tucuman - ARGENTINA).
• Source code for examples from the PCCTS language reference manual in .zip
• Errata

Some Tools Which Use PCCTS

Tim Littlefair's C++ Parser

Tutorials

Tutorial on PCCTS by Randall Fisher

John Lilley

He has made a great number of improvements and corrections to the PCCTS version of the C++ grammar which was originally written by T.J. Parr and members of NeXT. Anyone interested in the C++ grammar should visit his web page.

• PCCTS page by John Lilley
• Updated C++ grammar
• C/C++ pre-processor written using PCCTS

Vern Paxson's Flex with PCCTS

Download an example of flex with PCCTS in C++ mode

This example by Philip A. Wilsey is distributed as a zip file of about 4 kBytes. Revised for 1.33MR11 (and later).

Early (and ugly) notes on using flex with pccts in C mode.

These are available due to popular demand, despite my better judgement.

Additional Details

Version 2.22 of Notes for New Users of PCCTS

• Latest version is 2.22 released on 28 March 2000
• Corresponds to version 1.33MR22 of PCCTS
• PostScript format
• About 50 pages
• Table-of-Contents
• Extended examples (including make files) as plain text (not PostScript)
• HTML and PDF formats available

  Links for downloading Notes For New Users

  Send comments, suggestions, corrections to the author: t m o o g p o l h o d e c o m

Version 1 of Notes For New Users of PCCTS for C mode users

• Useful for those using PCCTS in C mode: it emphasizes C mode rather than C++ mode
• Version 1 is poorly organized
• It contains inaccuracies because of changes to PCCTS made after some items were written
• Last revised in March of 1995

  Download plain text compressed with zip (about 60 kBytes)

Help Downloading Files With Unrecognized File Types

Utilities For Unpacking Distribution Kits

• Info-ZIP version with ready-to-run versions for many operating systems.
  Source code is available from the same site.
• zip, tar, and gzip binaries for Macintosh

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