Chapter: Principles of Compiler Design : Syntax Analysis and Run-Time Environments

Syntax Analysis

Syntax analysis is the second phase of the compiler. It gets the input from the tokens and generates a syntax tree or parse tree.

SYNTAX ANALYSIS

Syntax analysis is the second phase of the compiler. It gets the input from the tokens and generates a syntax tree or parse tree.

Advantages of grammar for syntactic specification :

1. A grammar gives a precise and easy-to-understand syntactic specification of a programming language.

2. An efficient parser can be constructed automatically from a properly designed grammar.

3. A grammar imparts a structure to a source program that is useful for its translation into object code and for the detection of errors.

4. New constructs can be added to a language more easily when there is a grammatical description of the language.

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