Abstract
A number of tasks of a compi ler can be distinguished:
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to check whether the source program is correct
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if it is not correct, to give all useful information for correcting it (treatment of statical errors)
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if it is correct, to translate the program into an equivalent objectcode program
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to cause the object program to be executed
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to report any errors occurring during execution (treatment of dynamical errors)
In this note some pragmatic observations are given concerning the error treatment in, especially, ALGOL compilers.
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Koster, C.H.A. (1973). Error Reporting, Error Treatment, and Error Correction in Algol Translation — Part 1. In: Deussen, P. (eds) GI. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. 2. Jahrestagung. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 78. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80732-9_19
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