Ox
Pronunciation: ǒks
| n. | 1. | (Zool.) The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.
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| Noun | 1. |  ox - an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus |
| 2. | ox - any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos Synonyms: wild ox |
| (language, tool) | Ox - A preprocessor, written by Kurt Bischoff of
Iowa State University, that extends and generalises the
syntax and semantics of Yacc, Lex, and C. Ox's
support of LALR1 grammars generalises yacc in the way that
attribute grammars generalise context-free grammars. It
augments Yacc and Lex specifications with definitions of
synthesised and inherited attributes written in C syntax.
Ox checks these specifications for consistency and
completeness, and generates a program that builds and
decorates attributed parse trees. Ox accepts a most general
class of attribute grammars. The user may specify
postdecoration traversals for easy ordering of side effects
such as code generation. Latest version: G1.01, as of 1993-11-14. ftp://ftp.cs.iastate.edu/pub/ox/. Info: ["User Manual for Ox: An Attribute-Grammar Compiling System based on Yacc, Lex and C", K.M. Bischoff, TR92-30, Iowa State U, Dec 1992]. |