What is the difference between LR, SLR, and LALR parsers?
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What is the actual difference between LR, SLR, and LALR parsers? I know that SLR and LALR are types of LR parsers, but what is the actual difference as far as their parsing tables are concerned?
And how to show whether a grammar is LR, SLR, or LALR? For an LL grammar we just have to show that any cell of the parsing table should not contain multiple production rules. Any similar rules for LALR, SLR, and LR?
For example, how can we show that the grammar
S --> Aa | bAc | dc | bda
A --> d
is LALR(1) but not SLR(1)?