The document outlines the major phases of a compiler: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It describes the purpose and techniques used in each phase, including how lexical analyzers produce tokens, parsers use context-free grammars to build parse trees, and semantic analyzers perform type checking using attribute grammars. The intermediate code generation phase produces machine-independent codes that are later optimized and translated to machine-specific target codes.
1. A compiler translates a program written in a high-level language into an equivalent program in machine-level language.
2. The main phases of a compiler are lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, and code optimization.
3. Lexical analysis involves scanning the source code and grouping characters into tokens. Syntax analysis checks that the tokens form syntactically correct statements. Semantic analysis performs type checking and tracks variable attributes in a symbol table.
In this PPT we covered all the points like..Introduction to compilers - Design issues, passes, phases, symbol table
Preliminaries - Memory management, Operating system support for compiler, Compiler support for garbage collection ,Lexical Analysis - Tokens, Regular Expressions, Process of Lexical analysis, Block Schematic, Automatic construction of lexical analyzer using LEX, LEX features and specification.
- The document outlines the goals, outcomes, prerequisites, topics covered, and grading for a compiler design course.
- The major goals are to provide an understanding of compiler phases like scanning, parsing, semantic analysis and code generation, and have students implement parts of a compiler for a small language.
- By the end of the course students will be familiar with compiler phases and be able to define the semantic rules of a programming language.
- Prerequisites include knowledge of programming languages, algorithms, and grammar theories.
- The course covers topics like scanning, parsing, semantic analysis, code generation and optimization.
This document provides information about the CS416 Compiler Design course, including the instructor details, prerequisites, textbook, grading breakdown, course outline, and an overview of the major parts and phases of a compiler. The course will cover topics such as lexical analysis, syntax analysis using top-down and bottom-up parsing, semantic analysis using attribute grammars, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation.
This document provides information about a compilers course titled CS346. It lists the course schedule, instructors' details, syllabus, required textbooks, grading scheme, and provides introductory content about compilers including definitions, compiler vs interpreter, qualities of a good compiler, principles of compilation, and applications.
The phases of a compiler are:
1. Lexical analysis breaks the source code into tokens
2. Syntax analysis checks the token order and builds a parse tree
3. Semantic analysis checks for type errors and builds symbol tables
4. Code generation converts the parse tree into target code
A compiler is a program that translates a program written in one language (the source language) into an equivalent program in another language (the target language). Compilers perform several phases of analysis and translation: lexical analysis converts characters into tokens; syntax analysis groups tokens into a parse tree; semantic analysis checks for errors and collects type information; intermediate code generation produces an abstract representation; code optimization improves the intermediate code; and code generation outputs the target code. Compilers translate source code, detect errors, and produce optimized machine-readable code.
The document outlines the major phases of a compiler: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It describes the purpose and techniques used in each phase, including how lexical analyzers produce tokens, parsers use context-free grammars to build parse trees, and semantic analyzers perform type checking using attribute grammars. The intermediate code generation phase produces machine-independent codes that are later optimized and translated to machine-specific target codes.
1. A compiler translates a program written in a high-level language into an equivalent program in machine-level language.
2. The main phases of a compiler are lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, and code optimization.
3. Lexical analysis involves scanning the source code and grouping characters into tokens. Syntax analysis checks that the tokens form syntactically correct statements. Semantic analysis performs type checking and tracks variable attributes in a symbol table.
In this PPT we covered all the points like..Introduction to compilers - Design issues, passes, phases, symbol table
Preliminaries - Memory management, Operating system support for compiler, Compiler support for garbage collection ,Lexical Analysis - Tokens, Regular Expressions, Process of Lexical analysis, Block Schematic, Automatic construction of lexical analyzer using LEX, LEX features and specification.
- The document outlines the goals, outcomes, prerequisites, topics covered, and grading for a compiler design course.
- The major goals are to provide an understanding of compiler phases like scanning, parsing, semantic analysis and code generation, and have students implement parts of a compiler for a small language.
- By the end of the course students will be familiar with compiler phases and be able to define the semantic rules of a programming language.
- Prerequisites include knowledge of programming languages, algorithms, and grammar theories.
- The course covers topics like scanning, parsing, semantic analysis, code generation and optimization.
This document provides information about the CS416 Compiler Design course, including the instructor details, prerequisites, textbook, grading breakdown, course outline, and an overview of the major parts and phases of a compiler. The course will cover topics such as lexical analysis, syntax analysis using top-down and bottom-up parsing, semantic analysis using attribute grammars, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation.
This document provides information about a compilers course titled CS346. It lists the course schedule, instructors' details, syllabus, required textbooks, grading scheme, and provides introductory content about compilers including definitions, compiler vs interpreter, qualities of a good compiler, principles of compilation, and applications.
The phases of a compiler are:
1. Lexical analysis breaks the source code into tokens
2. Syntax analysis checks the token order and builds a parse tree
3. Semantic analysis checks for type errors and builds symbol tables
4. Code generation converts the parse tree into target code
A compiler is a program that translates a program written in one language (the source language) into an equivalent program in another language (the target language). Compilers perform several phases of analysis and translation: lexical analysis converts characters into tokens; syntax analysis groups tokens into a parse tree; semantic analysis checks for errors and collects type information; intermediate code generation produces an abstract representation; code optimization improves the intermediate code; and code generation outputs the target code. Compilers translate source code, detect errors, and produce optimized machine-readable code.
The document describes the structure and process of a compiler. It discusses the major phases of a compiler including scanning, parsing, semantic analysis, code generation and optimization. It also summarizes the key data structures used in a compiler like the symbol table and syntax tree. The document uses the TINY programming language and its compiler for the TM machine as an example to illustrate the compiler construction process.
The document describes the main phases of a compiler: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. Lexical analysis converts characters into tokens. Syntax analysis groups tokens into a parse tree based on grammar rules. Semantic analysis checks types and meanings. Intermediate code generation outputs abstract machine code. Code optimization improves efficiency. Code generation produces target code like assembly.
The document discusses error detection and recovery in compilers. It describes how compilers should detect various types of errors and attempt to recover from them to continue processing the program. It covers lexical, syntactic and semantic errors and different strategies compilers can use for error recovery like insertion, deletion or replacement of tokens. It also discusses properties of good error reporting and handling shift-reduce conflicts.
The document discusses the major phases of a compiler:
1. Syntax analysis parses the source code and produces an abstract syntax tree.
2. Contextual analysis checks the program for errors like type checking and scope and annotates the abstract syntax tree.
3. Code generation transforms the decorated abstract syntax tree into object code.
The document discusses the various phases of a compiler:
1. Lexical analysis groups characters into tokens like identifiers and operators.
2. Syntax analysis parses tokens into a parse tree representing the program's grammatical structure.
3. Semantic analysis checks for semantic errors and collects type information by analyzing the parse tree.
The document discusses the different phases of a compiler: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It explains that a compiler takes source code as input and translates it into an equivalent language. The compiler performs analysis and synthesis in multiple phases, with each phase transforming the representation of the source code. Key activities include generating tokens, building a syntax tree, type checking, generating optimized intermediate code, and finally producing target machine code. Symbol tables are also used to store identifier information as the compiler runs.
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A compiler is a program that translates a program written in a source language into an equivalent program in a target language. It has two major phases: analysis and synthesis. The analysis phase creates an intermediate representation using tools like a lexical analyzer, syntax analyzer, and semantic analyzer. The synthesis phase creates the target program from this representation using tools like an intermediate code generator, code optimizer, and code generator. Techniques used in compiler design like lexical analysis, parsing, and code generation have applications in other areas like text editors, databases, and natural language processing.
This document provides a 2 mark question and answer review for the Principles of Compiler Design subject. It includes 40 questions and answers covering topics like the definitions and phases of a compiler, lexical analysis, syntax analysis, parsing, grammars, ambiguity, error handling and more. The questions are multiple choice or short answer designed to assess understanding of key compiler design concepts and techniques.
The document discusses the phases of a compiler including lexical analysis. It provides questions and answers related to compilers and lexical analysis. Specifically:
- It defines key terms related to compilers like translators, compilers, interpreters, and the phases of compilation.
- Questions cover topics like regular expressions, finite automata, lexical analysis issues, and the role of lexical analyzers.
- The role of the lexical analyzer is to read the source program and group it into tokens that are then passed to the parser.
- Regular expressions are used to specify patterns for tokens and can be represented by finite automata like NFAs and DFAs.
The document discusses the basics of compiler construction. It begins by defining key terms like compilers, source and target languages. It then describes the main phases of compilation as lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization and machine code generation. It also discusses symbol tables, compiler tools and generations of programming languages.
The document describes the general structure of a compiler, which consists of a front-end and back-end separated by an intermediate representation (IR). The front-end performs analysis of the source code by parsing and semantic checking to generate an IR. The back-end then translates the IR into target code through optimization and code generation. This separation allows different front-ends and back-ends to be combined to create compilers for new languages and targets. The front-end includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis, while the back-end contains IR generation, optimization, and code generation steps.
This document defines and describes compilers. It discusses that a compiler translates high-level programming languages into machine-level languages. The compiler process involves two main phases - analysis and synthesis. The analysis phase breaks down the source code and generates an intermediate representation through lexical, syntax and semantic analysis. The synthesis phase then generates target code from the intermediate representation, optimizing and outputting assembly code. The document also outlines the typical structure of a compiler into front-end, middle-end and back-end components and discusses native compilers, cross compilers and virtual machines.
The document discusses the different phases of a compiler including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It provides details on each phase and the techniques involved. The overall structure of a compiler is given as taking a source program through various representations until target machine code is generated. Key terms related to compilers like tokens, lexemes, and parsing techniques are also introduced.
The document discusses the phases of a compiler, which are typically divided into analysis and synthesis phases. The analysis phase includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis. The synthesis phase includes intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. Other topics discussed include symbol tables, error handlers, examples of common compilers, and reasons for learning about compilers.
This document provides an overview of compiler design and its various phases. It discusses the different phases of a compiler including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It also describes the structure of a compiler and how it translates a source program through various representations and analyses until generating target code. Key concepts covered include context-free grammars, parsing techniques, symbol tables, intermediate representations, and code optimization.
Translation of a program written in a source language into a semantically equivalent program written in a target language
It also reports to its users the presence of errors in the source program
The document provides an introduction to compiler construction including:
1. The objectives of understanding how to build a compiler, use compiler construction tools, understand assembly code and virtual machines, and define grammars.
2. An overview of compilers and interpreters including the analysis-synthesis model of compilation where analysis determines operations from the source program and synthesis translates those operations into the target program.
3. An outline of the phases of compilation including preprocessing, compiling, assembling, and linking source code into absolute machine code using tools like scanners, parsers, syntax-directed translation, and code generators.
The document describes the structure and process of a compiler. It discusses the major phases of a compiler including scanning, parsing, semantic analysis, code generation and optimization. It also summarizes the key data structures used in a compiler like the symbol table and syntax tree. The document uses the TINY programming language and its compiler for the TM machine as an example to illustrate the compiler construction process.
The document describes the main phases of a compiler: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. Lexical analysis converts characters into tokens. Syntax analysis groups tokens into a parse tree based on grammar rules. Semantic analysis checks types and meanings. Intermediate code generation outputs abstract machine code. Code optimization improves efficiency. Code generation produces target code like assembly.
The document discusses error detection and recovery in compilers. It describes how compilers should detect various types of errors and attempt to recover from them to continue processing the program. It covers lexical, syntactic and semantic errors and different strategies compilers can use for error recovery like insertion, deletion or replacement of tokens. It also discusses properties of good error reporting and handling shift-reduce conflicts.
The document discusses the major phases of a compiler:
1. Syntax analysis parses the source code and produces an abstract syntax tree.
2. Contextual analysis checks the program for errors like type checking and scope and annotates the abstract syntax tree.
3. Code generation transforms the decorated abstract syntax tree into object code.
The document discusses the various phases of a compiler:
1. Lexical analysis groups characters into tokens like identifiers and operators.
2. Syntax analysis parses tokens into a parse tree representing the program's grammatical structure.
3. Semantic analysis checks for semantic errors and collects type information by analyzing the parse tree.
The document discusses the different phases of a compiler: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It explains that a compiler takes source code as input and translates it into an equivalent language. The compiler performs analysis and synthesis in multiple phases, with each phase transforming the representation of the source code. Key activities include generating tokens, building a syntax tree, type checking, generating optimized intermediate code, and finally producing target machine code. Symbol tables are also used to store identifier information as the compiler runs.
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A compiler is a program that translates a program written in a source language into an equivalent program in a target language. It has two major phases: analysis and synthesis. The analysis phase creates an intermediate representation using tools like a lexical analyzer, syntax analyzer, and semantic analyzer. The synthesis phase creates the target program from this representation using tools like an intermediate code generator, code optimizer, and code generator. Techniques used in compiler design like lexical analysis, parsing, and code generation have applications in other areas like text editors, databases, and natural language processing.
This document provides a 2 mark question and answer review for the Principles of Compiler Design subject. It includes 40 questions and answers covering topics like the definitions and phases of a compiler, lexical analysis, syntax analysis, parsing, grammars, ambiguity, error handling and more. The questions are multiple choice or short answer designed to assess understanding of key compiler design concepts and techniques.
The document discusses the phases of a compiler including lexical analysis. It provides questions and answers related to compilers and lexical analysis. Specifically:
- It defines key terms related to compilers like translators, compilers, interpreters, and the phases of compilation.
- Questions cover topics like regular expressions, finite automata, lexical analysis issues, and the role of lexical analyzers.
- The role of the lexical analyzer is to read the source program and group it into tokens that are then passed to the parser.
- Regular expressions are used to specify patterns for tokens and can be represented by finite automata like NFAs and DFAs.
The document discusses the basics of compiler construction. It begins by defining key terms like compilers, source and target languages. It then describes the main phases of compilation as lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization and machine code generation. It also discusses symbol tables, compiler tools and generations of programming languages.
The document describes the general structure of a compiler, which consists of a front-end and back-end separated by an intermediate representation (IR). The front-end performs analysis of the source code by parsing and semantic checking to generate an IR. The back-end then translates the IR into target code through optimization and code generation. This separation allows different front-ends and back-ends to be combined to create compilers for new languages and targets. The front-end includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis, while the back-end contains IR generation, optimization, and code generation steps.
This document defines and describes compilers. It discusses that a compiler translates high-level programming languages into machine-level languages. The compiler process involves two main phases - analysis and synthesis. The analysis phase breaks down the source code and generates an intermediate representation through lexical, syntax and semantic analysis. The synthesis phase then generates target code from the intermediate representation, optimizing and outputting assembly code. The document also outlines the typical structure of a compiler into front-end, middle-end and back-end components and discusses native compilers, cross compilers and virtual machines.
The document discusses the different phases of a compiler including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It provides details on each phase and the techniques involved. The overall structure of a compiler is given as taking a source program through various representations until target machine code is generated. Key terms related to compilers like tokens, lexemes, and parsing techniques are also introduced.
The document discusses the phases of a compiler, which are typically divided into analysis and synthesis phases. The analysis phase includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis. The synthesis phase includes intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. Other topics discussed include symbol tables, error handlers, examples of common compilers, and reasons for learning about compilers.
This document provides an overview of compiler design and its various phases. It discusses the different phases of a compiler including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It also describes the structure of a compiler and how it translates a source program through various representations and analyses until generating target code. Key concepts covered include context-free grammars, parsing techniques, symbol tables, intermediate representations, and code optimization.
Translation of a program written in a source language into a semantically equivalent program written in a target language
It also reports to its users the presence of errors in the source program
The document provides an introduction to compiler construction including:
1. The objectives of understanding how to build a compiler, use compiler construction tools, understand assembly code and virtual machines, and define grammars.
2. An overview of compilers and interpreters including the analysis-synthesis model of compilation where analysis determines operations from the source program and synthesis translates those operations into the target program.
3. An outline of the phases of compilation including preprocessing, compiling, assembling, and linking source code into absolute machine code using tools like scanners, parsers, syntax-directed translation, and code generators.
This document discusses various techniques for code optimization at the compiler level. It begins by defining code optimization and explaining that it aims to make a program more efficient by reducing resources like time and memory usage. Several common optimization techniques are then described, including common subexpression elimination, dead code elimination, and loop optimization. Common subexpression elimination removes redundant computations. Dead code elimination removes code that does not affect program output. Loop optimization techniques like removing loop invariants and induction variables can improve loop performance. The document provides examples to illustrate how each technique works.
Lecture 1 introduction to language processorsRebaz Najeeb
The document provides an overview of the different phases of a compiler: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It discusses each phase briefly and provides examples to illustrate how a program is processed through each step of compilation.
The document discusses lexical analysis of computer programming languages. It introduces lexical analysis as the process of reading a string of characters and categorizing them into tokens based on their roles. This involves constructing regular expressions to define the patterns for different token classes like keywords, identifiers, and numbers. The document then explains how to specify the lexical structure of a language by defining regular expressions for each token class and using them to build a lexical analyzer that takes a string as input and outputs the sequence of tokens.
This document discusses syntax-directed translation and type checking in programming languages. It explains that in syntax-directed translation, attributes are attached to grammar symbols and semantic rules compute attribute values. There are two ways to represent semantic rules: syntax-directed definitions and translation schemes. The document also discusses synthesized and inherited attributes, dependency graphs, and the purpose and components of type checking, including type synthesis, inference, conversions, and static versus dynamic checking.
The purpose of types:
To define what the program should do.
e.g. read an array of integers and return a double
To guarantee that the program is meaningful.
that it does not add a string to an integer
that variables are declared before they are used
To document the programmer's intentions.
better than comments, which are not checked by the compiler
To optimize the use of hardware.
reserve the minimal amount of memory, but not more
use the most appropriate machine instructions.
This document discusses lexical analysis using finite automata. It begins by defining regular expressions, finite automata, and their components. It then covers non-deterministic finite automata (NFAs) and deterministic finite automata (DFAs), and how NFAs can recognize the same regular languages as DFAs. The document outlines the process of converting a regular expression to an NFA using Thompson's construction, then converting the NFA to a DFA using subset construction. It also discusses minimizing DFAs using Hopcroft's algorithm. Examples are provided to illustrate each concept.
The document discusses lexical analysis and how it relates to parsing in compilers. It introduces basic terminology like tokens, patterns, lexemes, and attributes. It describes how a lexical analyzer works by scanning input, identifying tokens, and sending tokens to a parser. Regular expressions are used to specify patterns for token recognition. Finite automata like nondeterministic and deterministic finite automata are constructed from regular expressions to recognize tokens.
Syntax directed translation associates semantic rules and actions with a context-free grammar to evaluate expressions during parsing. It allows parsers to perform semantic checks and code generation by storing values in symbol tables and generating intermediate code as parsing occurs through techniques like top-down left-to-right parsing. An example is given of using these methods to evaluate the expression 2 + 3 * 4 during parsing.
Compiler Construction
Phases of a compiler
Analysis and synthesis phases
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-> Compilation Issues
-> Phases of compilation
-> Structure of compiler
-> Code Analysis
This document discusses inherited and synthesized attributes in semantic analysis using syntax-directed translation (SDT). It covers:
- Synthesized attributes are defined by semantic rules associated with productions and rely only on child nodes, while inherited attributes rely on parent/sibling nodes.
- Terminals can have synthesized attributes from lexing but not inherited attributes. Nonterminals can have both.
- Annotated parse trees show attribute values, while dependency graphs determine evaluation order.
- S-attributed definitions rely only on synthesized attributes and evaluate bottom-up. L-attributed definitions restrict inherited attributes to avoid cycles.
- SDTs can construct syntax trees during parsing to decouple parsing from translation
The document provides an overview of compilers and interpreters. It discusses how compilers translate source code into target code like machine language while interpreters directly execute source code. It also describes the different stages of compilation from preprocessing to assembly and linking. Key points made include:
- Compilers translate entire programs at once while interpreters translate and execute one line at a time.
- Compilers generate error reports after full translation while interpreters stop at the first error.
- Compilation takes more time than interpretation but executed code runs faster.
- Some languages use hybrid approaches that interpret translated bytecode for faster execution.
- Larger programs are compiled in pieces and linked together with libraries before execution.
This document discusses syntax-directed translation, which refers to a method of compiler implementation where the source language translation is completely driven by the parser. The parsing process and parse trees are used to direct semantic analysis and translation of the source program. Attributes and semantic rules are associated with the grammar symbols and productions to control semantic analysis and translation. There are two main representations of semantic rules: syntax-directed definitions and syntax-directed translation schemes. Syntax-directed translation schemes embed program fragments called semantic actions within production bodies and are more efficient than syntax-directed definitions as they indicate the order of evaluation of semantic actions. Attribute grammars can be used to represent syntax-directed translations.
The document discusses syntax-directed translation using attribute grammars. Attribute grammars assign semantic values or attributes to the symbols in a context-free grammar. A depth-first traversal of the parse tree executes semantic rules that calculate the values of attributes. There are two types of attributes: synthesized attributes which are computed bottom-up and inherited attributes which are passed top-down. L-attributed grammars allow efficient evaluation by passing inherited attributes left-to-right during a depth-first traversal.
The document provides an overview of compilers by discussing:
1. Compilers translate source code into executable target code by going through several phases including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, code optimization, and code generation.
2. An interpreter directly executes source code statement by statement while a compiler produces target code as translation. Compiled code generally runs faster than interpreted code.
3. The phases of a compiler include a front end that analyzes the source code and produces intermediate code, and a back end that optimizes and generates the target code.
A compiler is a program that translates a program written in one language into an equivalent target language. The front end checks syntax and semantics, while the back end translates the source code into assembly code. The compiler performs lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, code generation, optimization, and error handling. It identifies errors at compile time to help produce efficient, error-free code.
Phases of the Compiler - Systems ProgrammingMukesh Tekwani
The document describes the various phases of compilation:
1. Lexical analysis scans the source code and groups characters into tokens.
2. Syntax analysis checks syntax and constructs parse trees.
3. Semantic analysis generates intermediate code, checks for semantic errors using symbol tables, and enforces type checking.
4. Optional optimization improves programs by making them more efficient.
The document discusses the three phases of analysis in compiling a source program:
1) Linear analysis involves grouping characters into tokens with collective meanings like identifiers and operators.
2) Hierarchical analysis groups tokens into nested structures with collective meanings like expressions, represented by parse trees.
3) Semantic analysis checks that program components fit together meaningfully through type checking and ensuring operators have permitted operand types.
We have learnt that any computer system is made of hardware and software.
The hardware understands a language, which humans cannot understand. So we write programs in high-level language, which is easier for us to understand and remember.
These programs are then fed into a series of tools and OS components to get the desired code that can be used by the machine.
This is known as Language Processing System.
This document provides information about the phases and objectives of a compiler design course. It discusses the following key points:
- The course aims to teach students about the various phases of a compiler like parsing, code generation, and optimization techniques.
- The outcomes include explaining the compilation process and building tools like lexical analyzers and parsers. Students should also be able to develop semantic analysis and code generators.
- The document then covers the different phases of a compiler in detail, including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, and code optimization. It provides examples to illustrate each phase.
System software module 4 presentation filejithujithin657
The document discusses the various phases of a compiler:
1. Lexical analysis scans source code and transforms it into tokens.
2. Syntax analysis validates the structure and checks for syntax errors.
3. Semantic analysis ensures declarations and statements follow language guidelines.
4. Intermediate code generation develops three-address codes as an intermediate representation.
5. Code generation translates the optimized intermediate code into machine code.
The document summarizes the key phases of a compiler:
1. The compiler takes source code as input and goes through several phases including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, code optimization, and code generation to produce machine code as output.
2. Lexical analysis converts the source code into tokens, syntax analysis checks the grammar and produces a parse tree, and semantic analysis validates meanings.
3. Code optimization improves the intermediate code before code generation translates it into machine instructions.
The document provides an introduction to compilers. It discusses that compilers are language translators that take source code as input and convert it to another language as output. The compilation process involves multiple phases including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, code generation, and code optimization. It describes the different phases of compilation in detail and explains concepts like intermediate code representation, symbol tables, and grammars.
The document provides an overview of compilers and interpreters. It discusses that a compiler translates source code into machine code that can be executed, while an interpreter executes source code directly without compilation. The document then covers the typical phases of a compiler in more detail, including the front-end (lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis), middle-end/optimizer, and back-end (code generation). It also discusses interpreters, intermediate code representation, symbol tables, and compiler construction tools.
This document provides an introduction to compilers and their construction. It defines a compiler as a program that translates a source program into target machine code. The compilation process involves several phases including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, code optimization, and code generation. An interpreter directly executes source code without compilation. The document also discusses compiler tools and intermediate representations used in the compilation process.
This document provides an overview of the key components and phases of a compiler. It discusses that a compiler translates a program written in a source language into an equivalent program in a target language. The main phases of a compiler are lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, code generation, and symbol table management. Each phase performs important processing that ultimately results in a program in the target language that is equivalent to the original source program.
This document provides an introduction to compilers. It discusses how compilers bridge the gap between high-level programming languages that are easier for humans to write in and machine languages that computers can actually execute. It describes the various phases of compilation like lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, code generation, and optimization. It also compares compilers to interpreters and discusses different types of translators like compilers, interpreters, and assemblers.
The document discusses the different phases of a compiler: analysis, synthesis, and code generation. The analysis phase includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis to convert the source code into an intermediate representation. The synthesis phase takes the intermediate code and performs optimization and code generation to create the target machine code. Key parts of the compiler include the lexical analyzer, syntax analyzer, semantic analyzer, symbol table manager, intermediate code generator, code optimizer, code generator, and error handler.
The document discusses the phases of a compiler and their functions. It describes:
1) Lexical analysis converts the source code to tokens by recognizing patterns in the input. It identifies tokens like identifiers, keywords, and numbers.
2) Syntax analysis/parsing checks that tokens are arranged according to grammar rules by constructing a parse tree.
3) Semantic analysis validates the program semantics and performs type checking using the parse tree and symbol table.
The document discusses the phases of a compiler:
1) Lexical analysis scans the source code and converts it to tokens which are passed to the syntax analyzer.
2) Syntax analysis/parsing checks the token arrangements against the language grammar and generates a parse tree.
3) Semantic analysis checks that the parse tree follows the language rules by using the syntax tree and symbol table, performing type checking.
4) Intermediate code generation represents the program for an abstract machine in a machine-independent form like 3-address code.
The document describes the phases of a compiler. It discusses lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization and code generation.
Lexical analysis scans the source code and returns tokens. Syntax analysis builds an abstract syntax tree from tokens using a context-free grammar. Semantic analysis checks for semantic errors and annotates the tree with types. Intermediate code generation converts the syntax tree to an intermediate representation like 3-address code. Code generation outputs machine or assembly code from the intermediate code.
The document discusses the different phases of a compiler and storage allocation strategies. It describes:
1. The phases of a compiler include lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation.
2. Storage allocation strategies for activation records include static allocation, stack allocation, and heap allocation. Languages like FORTRAN use static allocation while Algol uses stack allocation.
3. Parameter passing mechanisms include call-by-value, call-by-reference, copy-restore, and call-by-name. Call-by-value passes the actual parameter values while call-by-reference passes their locations.
The compiler is software that converts source code written in a high-level language into machine code. It works in two major phases - analysis and synthesis. The analysis phase performs lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis to generate an intermediate representation from the source code. The synthesis phase performs code optimization and code generation to create the target machine code from the intermediate representation. The compiler uses various components like a symbol table, parser, and code generator to perform this translation.
This document provides an introduction to compilers, including definitions of key terms like translator, compiler, interpreter, and assembler. It describes the main phases of compilation as lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. It also discusses related concepts like the front-end and back-end of a compiler, multi-pass compilation, and different types of compilers.
The document provides an overview of the compilation process and the different phases involved in compiler construction. It can be summarized as follows:
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3. The Context of a Compiler
• In addition to a compiler; several other
programs may be required to create an
executable target program.
• A source program may be divided into
modules stored in separate files.
• The task of collecting the source program is
sometimes entrusted to a distinct program
called a preprocessor.
4. The Context of a Compiler
• The target program created by compiler
may require further processing before it can
be run.
• The compiler creates assembly code that is
translated by an assembler into machine
code and then linked together with some
library routines into the code that actually
runs on the machine.
5. Preprocessors, Compilers,
Assemblers, and Linkers
Preprocessor
Compiler
Assembler
Linker
Skeletal Source Program
Source Program
Target Assembly Program
Relocatable Object Code
Absolute Machine Code
Libraries and
Relocatable Object Files
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6. Analysis of the source program
Linear analysis:
• In which the stream of characters making
up the source program is read from left to
right and grouped into tokens that are
sequences of characters having a collective
meaning.
• In compiler, linear analysis is also called
LEXICAL ANALYSIS or SCANNING
7. Analysis of the source program
Hierarchical Analysis:
• In which characters or tokens are grouped
hierarchically into nested collections with
collective meaning.
• In compiler, hierarchical analysis is called
parsing or syntax analysis.
8. Analysis of the source program
Semantic analysis:
• In which certain checks are performed to
ensure that the components of a program fit
together meaningfully.
9. Semantic Analysis – Complications
• Handling ambiguity
– Semantic ambiguity: “I saw the Habib Bank Plaza
flying into Karachi”
10. Lexical Analysis
• For example in lexical analysis the characters in the
assignment statement
position := initial + rate * 60
would be grouped into the following tokens.
1. The identifier position
2. The assignment symbol :=
3. The identifier initial
4. The plus + sign
5. The identifier rate
6. The multiplication sign *
7. The number 60
11. Syntax Analysis
• It involves grouping the tokens of the
source program into grammatical phrases
that are tied by the compiler to synthesize
output.
• Usually the grammatical phrases of the
source program are represented by a parse
tree.
13. Parse tree tokens
• In expression position: = initial + rate * 60
the phrase rate * 60 is a logical unit.
• As multiplication is performed before addition.
• The expression initial + rate is followed by a *, it
is not grouped into a single phrase by itself.
14. Rules to identify an expression
Rule 1. Any identifier is an expression
Rule 2. Any number is an expression
Rule 3. If expression1 and expression2 are
expressions, then so are
expression1 + expression2
expression1 * expression2
15. Explanation of rules
• Rule (1) and (2) are (non-recursive) basic rules,
while (3) defines expression in terms of operators
applied to other expressions.
• By Rule (1), initial and rate are expressions
• By Rule (2), 60 is an expression
• By Rule (3), we can first infer that rate*60 is an
expression & finally that initial + rate * 60 is an
expression
16. Rule to identify a statement
• If identifier1 is an identifier, and expression2
is an expression then
identifier1 : = expression2
is a statement
18. Context free grammar
• Lexical constructs do not require recursion,
while syntactic constructs often do.
• Context free grammars are a
formalization of recursive rules that can be
used to guide syntactic analysis.
19. Context free grammar
• For example recursion is not required to recognize
identifiers, which are typically strings of letters and digits
beginning with a letter.
• We would normally recognize identifiers by a simple scan
of the input stream, waiting until a character that was
neither a letter nor a digit was found
• And then grouping all the letters and digits found up to
that point into an identifier token.
• The characters so grouped are recorded in a table called a
symbol table, and remove from the input so that
processing of the next token can begin.
20. Phases of Compiler
Syntax Analyzer
Lexical Analyzer
Semantic Analyzer
Intermediate code generator
Code optimizer
Code generator
Target Program
Source Program
Symbol table
Manger
Error Handler
21. Symbol table Management
• An essential function of a compiler is to
record the identifiers used in the source
program and collect information about
various attributes of each identifier.
• These attributes may provide information
about the storage allocated for an identifier,
its type, its scope (where in the program it is
valid) etc
22. Symbol table
• A symbol table is a data structure containing a
record for each identifier, with fields for the
attributes of the identifier.
• The data structure allow us to find the record for
each identifier quickly and to store or retrieve data
from that record quickly.
• When an identifier in the source program is
detected by the lexical analyzer, the identifier is
entered into the symbol table.
23. Error detection and Reporting
• Each phase can encounter errors.
• After detecting an error, a phase must
somehow deal with that error, so that
compilation can proceed, allowing further
errors in the source program to be detected.
• A compiler that stops when it finds the first
error is not as helpful as it could be.
24. Error detection and Reporting
• The syntax and semantic analysis phases usually
handle a large fraction of the errors detectable by
the compiler.
• The lexical phase can detect errors where the
characters remaining in the input do not form any
token of the language.
• Errors where the token stream violates the
structure rules (Syntax) of the language are
determined by the syntax analysis phase.
25. Error detection and Reporting
• During semantic analysis the compiler tries
to detect constructs that have the right
syntactic structure but no meaning to the
operation involved.
• For example if we try to add two identifiers,
one of which is the name of an array and
the other the name of a procedure.
26. The Analysis Phase
position : = initial + rate * 60
• The lexical analysis phase reads the characters in
the source program and groups them into a stream
of tokens in which each token represents a
logically cohesive sequence of characters, such as
an identifier, a keyword (if, while etc), a
punctuation character or a multi-character operator
like :=
• The character sequence forming a token called the
lexeme for the token.
27. The Analysis Phase (Cont..)
• Certain tokens will be augmented by a
“lexical value”.
• For example when an identifier like rate is
found, the lexical analyzer not only
generates token, say id, but also enters the
lexeme rate into the symbol table, if it is not
already there.
28.
29. Intermediate code generation
• After syntax and semantic analysis, some
compilers generate an explicit intermediate
representation of the source program.
• This intermediate representation has two
important properties;
– It should be easy to produce
– Easy to translate into the target machine
30. Intermediate code generation
• The intermediate representation can have a
variety of forms.
• It may called as “three address code”,
which is like the assembly language for a
machine in which every memory location
can act like a register.
31. Intermediate code generation
• Three address code consists of a sequence of
instructions, each of which has at most three
operands.
• The source program might appear in three address
code as
temp1 := inttoreal (60)
temp2 := id3 * temp1
temp3 := id2 + temp2
id1 := temp3
33. Intermediate code generation
• The intermediate form has several
properties.
• First each three address instruction has at
most one operator in addition to the
assignment.
• Thus when generating these instructions,
the compiler has to decide on the order in
which operations are to be done.
34. Intermediate code generation
• In our example the multiplication precedes the
addition in the source program.
• Second the compiler must generate a temporary
name to hold the value computed by each
instruction.
• Third, some “three address” instructions have
fewer than three operands for example the first
and last instruction in our example.
35. Code Optimization
• The code optimization
phase attempts to
improve the
intermediate code, so
the faster running
machine code will
result.
36. Code Optimization
temp1 := id3 * 60.0
Id1 := id2 + temp1
• There is nothing wrong with this simple algorithm; since the problem
can be fixed during the code optimization phase.
• The compiler can deduced that the conversion of 60 from integer to
real representation can be done once and for all at compile time; so the
inttoreal operation can be eliminated.
• Besides temp3 is used only once, to transmit its value to id1.
• It then becomes safe to substitute id1 for temp3, whereupon the last
statement of intermediate code is not needed and the optimized code
results.
37. Code Optimization
• There is a great variation in the amount of
code optimization different compiler
performs.
• In those that do the most, called “optimizing
compilers”
• A significant fraction of the time of the
compiler is spent on this phase
38. Code generation
• The final phase of the compiler
is the generation of target code,
consisting normally of
relocatable machine code or
assembly code.
• Memory locations are selected
for each of the variables used
by the program.
• Intermediate instructions are
each translated into a sequence
of machine instructions that
perform the same task.
• A crucial aspect is the
assignment of variable to
register.
39. Code generation
• The first and second
operands of each
instruction specify a
source and destination
respectively.
• The F in each
instruction tells us that
instructions deal with
floating point numbers