The front-end of a compiler starts with a stream of characters which constitute the program text, and is expected to create from it intermediate code that allows context handling and translation into target code. It does this by first recovering the syntactic structure of the program by parsing the program text according to the grammar of the language. Since the meaning of the program is defined in terms of its syntactic structure, possessing this structure allows the front-end to generate the corresponding intermediate code.
Keywords
- Regular Expression
- Input Buffer
- Syntax Tree
- Transition Table
- Lexical Analyzer
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