---
name: "cup"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cup"
version: "0.11b-20160615-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cup"
---

# cup(1)

LALR parser generator for Java(tm)

## NAME

cup - LALR parser generator for Java(tm)

## SYNOPSIS

**cup** \[*options*\] \<*file*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **cup** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see */usr/share/doc/cup/manual.html*.

## OPTIONS

- **-package name**

  specify package generated classes go in \[default none\].

- **-parser name**

  specify parser class name \[default "parser"\].

- **-symbols name**

  specify name for symbol constant class \[default "sym"\]

- **-nonterms**

  put non terminals in symbol constant class.

- **-expect #**

  number of conflicts expected/allowed \[default 0\].

- **-compact\_red**

  compact tables by defaulting to most frequent reduce.

- **-nowarn**

  don't warn about useless productions, etc.

- **-nosummary**

  don't print the usual summary of parse states, etc.

- **-nopositions**

  don't propagate the left and right token position values.

- **-progress**

  print messages to indicate progress of the system.

- **-time**

  print time usage summary.

- **-dump\_grammar**

  produce a human readable dump of the symbols and grammar.

- **-dump\_states**

  produce a dump of parse state machine.

- **-dump\_tables**

  produce a dump of the parse tables

- **-dump**

  produce a dump of all of the above.

## SEE ALSO

[**jlex**(1)](/jlex/1.md), **javac**(1).

## AUTHORS

The author of CUP is Scott E. Hudson \<http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Scott.E.Hudson.html\>. This manual page was written by Vincent Renardias \<vincent@waw.com\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.