This document describes syntax and semantics for programming languages. It begins by defining syntax as the form or structure of a language and semantics as the meaning. Formal methods for describing syntax include context-free grammars, Backus-Naur Form (BNF), and attribute grammars. Semantics can be described through operational semantics which defines meaning through state changes during execution or denotational semantics which provides an abstract definition using recursive functions. The document provides examples of BNF rules, derivations, and attribute grammars.
This document provides information about the CS213 Programming Languages Concepts course taught by Prof. Taymoor Mohamed Nazmy in the computer science department at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. It describes the syntax and semantics of programming languages, discusses different programming language paradigms like imperative, functional, and object-oriented, and explains concepts like lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, symbol tables, intermediate code generation, optimization, and code generation which are parts of the compiler design process.
The document provides an overview of compiler design and the different phases involved in compiling a program. It discusses:
1) What compilers do by translating source code into machine code while hiding machine-dependent details. Compilers may generate pure machine code, augmented machine code, or virtual machine code.
2) The typical structure of a compiler which includes lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, code generation, and optimization phases.
3) Lexical analysis involves scanning the source code and grouping characters into tokens. Regular expressions are used to specify patterns for tokens. Scanner generators like Lex and Flex can generate scanners from regular expression definitions.
This document provides an overview of the key concepts and phases in compiler design, including lexical analysis, syntax analysis using context-free grammars and parsing techniques, semantic analysis using attribute grammars, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. The major parts of a compiler are the analysis phase, which creates an intermediate representation from the source program using lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis, and the synthesis phase, which generates the target program from the intermediate representation using intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation.
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 parts - analysis and synthesis. In analysis, an intermediate representation is created by analyzing the lexical, syntactic and semantic properties of the source program. In synthesis, the target program is created from the intermediate representation through code generation and optimization. The major techniques used in compiler design like parsing and code generation can also be applied to other domains like natural language processing.
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 describes syntax and semantics in programming languages. It defines syntax as the form of expressions, statements, and program units, while semantics refers to their meaning. It provides examples of syntax rules for Java statements in Backus-Naur Form (BNF) and describes how BNF is used to formally define a programming language's syntax through rules and derivations. It also discusses parse trees for representing the syntactic structure of statements generated from a grammar.
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.
The document discusses lexical analysis, which is the first phase of compilation. It involves reading the source code and grouping characters into meaningful sequences called lexemes. Each lexeme is mapped to a token that is passed to the subsequent parsing phase. Regular expressions are used to specify patterns for tokens. A lexical analyzer uses finite automata to recognize tokens based on these patterns. Lexical analyzers may also perform tasks like removing comments and whitespace from the source code.
This document provides information about the CS213 Programming Languages Concepts course taught by Prof. Taymoor Mohamed Nazmy in the computer science department at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. It describes the syntax and semantics of programming languages, discusses different programming language paradigms like imperative, functional, and object-oriented, and explains concepts like lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, symbol tables, intermediate code generation, optimization, and code generation which are parts of the compiler design process.
The document provides an overview of compiler design and the different phases involved in compiling a program. It discusses:
1) What compilers do by translating source code into machine code while hiding machine-dependent details. Compilers may generate pure machine code, augmented machine code, or virtual machine code.
2) The typical structure of a compiler which includes lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, code generation, and optimization phases.
3) Lexical analysis involves scanning the source code and grouping characters into tokens. Regular expressions are used to specify patterns for tokens. Scanner generators like Lex and Flex can generate scanners from regular expression definitions.
This document provides an overview of the key concepts and phases in compiler design, including lexical analysis, syntax analysis using context-free grammars and parsing techniques, semantic analysis using attribute grammars, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. The major parts of a compiler are the analysis phase, which creates an intermediate representation from the source program using lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis, and the synthesis phase, which generates the target program from the intermediate representation using intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation.
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 parts - analysis and synthesis. In analysis, an intermediate representation is created by analyzing the lexical, syntactic and semantic properties of the source program. In synthesis, the target program is created from the intermediate representation through code generation and optimization. The major techniques used in compiler design like parsing and code generation can also be applied to other domains like natural language processing.
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 describes syntax and semantics in programming languages. It defines syntax as the form of expressions, statements, and program units, while semantics refers to their meaning. It provides examples of syntax rules for Java statements in Backus-Naur Form (BNF) and describes how BNF is used to formally define a programming language's syntax through rules and derivations. It also discusses parse trees for representing the syntactic structure of statements generated from a grammar.
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.
The document discusses lexical analysis, which is the first phase of compilation. It involves reading the source code and grouping characters into meaningful sequences called lexemes. Each lexeme is mapped to a token that is passed to the subsequent parsing phase. Regular expressions are used to specify patterns for tokens. A lexical analyzer uses finite automata to recognize tokens based on these patterns. Lexical analyzers may also perform tasks like removing comments and whitespace from the source code.
1. A compiler translates a program written in a source language into an equivalent program in a target language. It performs analysis and synthesis phases.
2. The analysis phase includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis to create an intermediate representation.
3. The synthesis phase includes intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation to create the target program.
4. Compiler construction techniques are useful for many tasks beyond just compilation, such as natural language processing.
The document defines different phases of a compiler and describes Lexical Analysis in detail. It discusses:
1) A compiler converts a high-level language to machine language through front-end and back-end phases including Lexical Analysis, Syntax Analysis, Semantic Analysis, Intermediate Code Generation, Code Optimization and Code Generation.
2) Lexical Analysis scans the source code and groups characters into tokens by removing whitespace and comments. It identifies tokens like identifiers, keywords, operators etc.
3) A lexical analyzer generator like Lex takes a program written in the Lex language and produces a C program that acts as a lexical analyzer.
This document discusses various topics related to programming languages including:
- It defines different types of programming languages like procedural, functional, scripting, logic, and object-oriented.
- It explains why studying programming languages is important for expressing ideas, choosing appropriate languages, learning new languages, and better understanding implementation.
- It describes programming paradigms like imperative, object-oriented, functional, and logic programming.
- It covers concepts like syntax, semantics, pragmatics, grammars, and translation models in programming languages.
The document discusses syntax analysis in compiler design. It defines syntax analysis as the process of analyzing a string of symbols according to the rules of a formal grammar. This involves checking the syntax against a context-free grammar, which is more powerful than regular expressions and can check balancing of tokens. The output of syntax analysis is a parse tree. It separates lexical analysis and parsing for simplicity and efficiency. Lexical analysis breaks the source code into tokens, while parsing analyzes token streams against production rules to detect errors and generate the parse tree.
This document provides an overview of a compiler design course, including prerequisites, textbook, course outline, and introductions to key compiler concepts. The course outline covers topics such as lexical analysis, syntax analysis, parsing techniques, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. Compiler design involves translating a program from a source language to a target language. Key phases of compilation include lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. Parsing techniques can be top-down or bottom-up.
This document describes methods for formally defining the syntax and semantics of programming languages. It introduces context-free grammars and Backus-Naur Form (BNF) for specifying syntax and gives examples of grammars. Attribute grammars extend BNF with semantic attributes to describe static semantics. Operational semantics is discussed as a way to define the runtime meanings of language constructs by simulating program execution.
This document describes the syllabus for the course CS2352 Principles of Compiler Design. It includes 5 units covering lexical analysis, syntax analysis, intermediate code generation, code generation, and code optimization. The objectives of the course are to understand and implement a lexical analyzer, parser, code generation schemes, and optimization techniques. It lists a textbook and references for the course and provides a brief description of the topics to be covered in each unit.
This document provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in a compiler design course, including:
- The major parts of a compiler are the analysis and synthesis phases. Analysis includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis to create an intermediate representation. Synthesis generates target code from the intermediate representation.
- Parsing techniques include top-down parsing like LL parsing and bottom-up parsing like LR parsing to create a parse tree from a context-free grammar.
- Semantic analysis performs type checking and collects symbol table information. Intermediate code generation outputs machine-independent code that is optimized and input to code generation.
This document provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in a compiler design course, including:
- The major parts of a compiler are the analysis and synthesis phases. Analysis includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis to create an intermediate representation. Synthesis generates target code from the intermediate representation.
- Parsing techniques include top-down parsing like LL parsing and bottom-up parsing like LR parsing to create a parse tree from a context-free grammar.
- Semantic analysis performs type checking and collects symbol table information. Intermediate code generation outputs machine-independent code that is optimized and input to code generation.
- Code generation produces the target program in a specific machine language like reloc
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.
This document describes syntax and semantics for describing programming languages. It begins by introducing syntax as the form or structure of a language and semantics as the meaning. It then discusses formal methods for describing syntax, including context-free grammars (CFGs), Backus-Naur Form (BNF), derivations, parse trees, and ambiguity. Attribute grammars are introduced as a way to incorporate semantic information into CFGs. Operational and denotational semantics are discussed as approaches to formally describing the meaning of programs. Examples are provided for BNF syntax rules, derivations, attribute grammars, and a denotational semantics for expressions.
The document discusses lexical analysis, which is the first stage of syntax analysis for programming languages. It covers terminology, using finite automata and regular expressions to describe tokens, and how lexical analyzers work. Lexical analyzers extract lexemes from source code and return tokens to the parser. They are often implemented using finite state machines generated from regular grammar descriptions of the lexical patterns in a language.
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.
The document discusses language design issues, specifically describing syntax and formal methods for describing syntax. It covers context-free grammars, Backus-Naur Form (BNF), and how BNF can be used to formally describe the syntax of programming languages. Key concepts explained include non-terminals, terminals, production rules, derivations, parse trees, and how precedence can be handled to avoid ambiguity.
The document discusses a compiler design project to convert BNF rules into YACC form and generate an abstract syntax tree. It provides background information on BNF notation and its use in compiler design. It also describes the input and output files used in YACC, including definition, rule, and auxiliary routine parts of the input file and y.tab.c and y.tab.h output files. The document concludes with an overview of syntax directed translation in compiler design for carrying out semantic analysis by augmenting the grammar with attributes.
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 discusses parsing methods and techniques for high performance computing. It covers the following key points in 3 sentences:
The document outlines the various phases of compiler design including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, code generation, and optimization. It then discusses parsing in more detail, describing lexical analysis as the first phase that interacts with source code to generate tokens, and syntax analysis/parsing as taking tokens to build parse trees according to grammar rules. The document also covers different parsing techniques like top-down and bottom-up parsing, and issues around implementing parallel parsing such as dividing code, synchronization, processor allocation, threading, task distribution, and context switching.
1. A compiler translates a program written in a source language into an equivalent program in a target language. It performs analysis and synthesis phases.
2. The analysis phase includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis to create an intermediate representation.
3. The synthesis phase includes intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation to create the target program.
4. Compiler construction techniques are useful for many tasks beyond just compilation, such as natural language processing.
The document defines different phases of a compiler and describes Lexical Analysis in detail. It discusses:
1) A compiler converts a high-level language to machine language through front-end and back-end phases including Lexical Analysis, Syntax Analysis, Semantic Analysis, Intermediate Code Generation, Code Optimization and Code Generation.
2) Lexical Analysis scans the source code and groups characters into tokens by removing whitespace and comments. It identifies tokens like identifiers, keywords, operators etc.
3) A lexical analyzer generator like Lex takes a program written in the Lex language and produces a C program that acts as a lexical analyzer.
This document discusses various topics related to programming languages including:
- It defines different types of programming languages like procedural, functional, scripting, logic, and object-oriented.
- It explains why studying programming languages is important for expressing ideas, choosing appropriate languages, learning new languages, and better understanding implementation.
- It describes programming paradigms like imperative, object-oriented, functional, and logic programming.
- It covers concepts like syntax, semantics, pragmatics, grammars, and translation models in programming languages.
The document discusses syntax analysis in compiler design. It defines syntax analysis as the process of analyzing a string of symbols according to the rules of a formal grammar. This involves checking the syntax against a context-free grammar, which is more powerful than regular expressions and can check balancing of tokens. The output of syntax analysis is a parse tree. It separates lexical analysis and parsing for simplicity and efficiency. Lexical analysis breaks the source code into tokens, while parsing analyzes token streams against production rules to detect errors and generate the parse tree.
This document provides an overview of a compiler design course, including prerequisites, textbook, course outline, and introductions to key compiler concepts. The course outline covers topics such as lexical analysis, syntax analysis, parsing techniques, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. Compiler design involves translating a program from a source language to a target language. Key phases of compilation include lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, intermediate code generation, code optimization, and code generation. Parsing techniques can be top-down or bottom-up.
This document describes methods for formally defining the syntax and semantics of programming languages. It introduces context-free grammars and Backus-Naur Form (BNF) for specifying syntax and gives examples of grammars. Attribute grammars extend BNF with semantic attributes to describe static semantics. Operational semantics is discussed as a way to define the runtime meanings of language constructs by simulating program execution.
This document describes the syllabus for the course CS2352 Principles of Compiler Design. It includes 5 units covering lexical analysis, syntax analysis, intermediate code generation, code generation, and code optimization. The objectives of the course are to understand and implement a lexical analyzer, parser, code generation schemes, and optimization techniques. It lists a textbook and references for the course and provides a brief description of the topics to be covered in each unit.
This document provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in a compiler design course, including:
- The major parts of a compiler are the analysis and synthesis phases. Analysis includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis to create an intermediate representation. Synthesis generates target code from the intermediate representation.
- Parsing techniques include top-down parsing like LL parsing and bottom-up parsing like LR parsing to create a parse tree from a context-free grammar.
- Semantic analysis performs type checking and collects symbol table information. Intermediate code generation outputs machine-independent code that is optimized and input to code generation.
This document provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in a compiler design course, including:
- The major parts of a compiler are the analysis and synthesis phases. Analysis includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis to create an intermediate representation. Synthesis generates target code from the intermediate representation.
- Parsing techniques include top-down parsing like LL parsing and bottom-up parsing like LR parsing to create a parse tree from a context-free grammar.
- Semantic analysis performs type checking and collects symbol table information. Intermediate code generation outputs machine-independent code that is optimized and input to code generation.
- Code generation produces the target program in a specific machine language like reloc
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.
This document describes syntax and semantics for describing programming languages. It begins by introducing syntax as the form or structure of a language and semantics as the meaning. It then discusses formal methods for describing syntax, including context-free grammars (CFGs), Backus-Naur Form (BNF), derivations, parse trees, and ambiguity. Attribute grammars are introduced as a way to incorporate semantic information into CFGs. Operational and denotational semantics are discussed as approaches to formally describing the meaning of programs. Examples are provided for BNF syntax rules, derivations, attribute grammars, and a denotational semantics for expressions.
The document discusses lexical analysis, which is the first stage of syntax analysis for programming languages. It covers terminology, using finite automata and regular expressions to describe tokens, and how lexical analyzers work. Lexical analyzers extract lexemes from source code and return tokens to the parser. They are often implemented using finite state machines generated from regular grammar descriptions of the lexical patterns in a language.
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.
The document discusses language design issues, specifically describing syntax and formal methods for describing syntax. It covers context-free grammars, Backus-Naur Form (BNF), and how BNF can be used to formally describe the syntax of programming languages. Key concepts explained include non-terminals, terminals, production rules, derivations, parse trees, and how precedence can be handled to avoid ambiguity.
The document discusses a compiler design project to convert BNF rules into YACC form and generate an abstract syntax tree. It provides background information on BNF notation and its use in compiler design. It also describes the input and output files used in YACC, including definition, rule, and auxiliary routine parts of the input file and y.tab.c and y.tab.h output files. The document concludes with an overview of syntax directed translation in compiler design for carrying out semantic analysis by augmenting the grammar with attributes.
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 discusses parsing methods and techniques for high performance computing. It covers the following key points in 3 sentences:
The document outlines the various phases of compiler design including lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, code generation, and optimization. It then discusses parsing in more detail, describing lexical analysis as the first phase that interacts with source code to generate tokens, and syntax analysis/parsing as taking tokens to build parse trees according to grammar rules. The document also covers different parsing techniques like top-down and bottom-up parsing, and issues around implementing parallel parsing such as dividing code, synchronization, processor allocation, threading, task distribution, and context switching.
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1. TextBook
CSCI18 - Concepts of Programming languages
Concepts of Programming
Languages, Robert W.
Sebesta, (10th edition),
Addison-Wesley Publishing
Company
3. Topics
• Introduction
• The General Problem of Describing Syntax
• Formal Methods of Describing Syntax
• Attribute Grammars
• Describing the Meanings of Programs:
• Dynamic Semantics
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4. Introduction
• Syntax: the form or structure of the expressions,
statements, and program units
• Semantics: the meaning of the expressions,
statements, and program units
• Syntax and semantics provide a language’s definition
– Users of a language definition
• Other language designers
• Implementers
• Programmers (the users of the language)
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5. The General Problem of Describing Syntax:
Terminology
• A sentence is a string of characters over some
alphabet
• A language is a set of sentences
• A lexeme is the lowest level syntactic unit of a
language (e.g., *, sum, begin)
• A token is a category of lexemes (e.g.,
identifier)
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6. Formal Definition of Languages
• Recognizers
– A recognition device reads input strings over the alphabet
of the language and decides whether the input strings
belong to the language
– Example: syntax analysis part of a compiler
• Generators
– A device that generates sentences of a language
– One can determine if the syntax of a particular sentence is
syntactically correct by comparing it to the structure of the
generator
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7. BNF and Context-Free Grammars
• Context-Free Grammars
– Developed by Noam Chomsky in the mid-1950s
– Language generators, meant to describe the syntax of
natural languages
– Define a class of languages called context-free languages
• Backus-Naur Form (1959)
– Invented by John Backus to describe Algol 58
– BNF is equivalent to context-free grammars
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8. BNF Fundamentals
• In BNF, abstractions are used to represent classes of syntactic structures --
they act like syntactic variables (also called nonterminal symbols, or just
terminals)
• Terminals are lexemes or tokens
• A rule has a left-hand side (LHS), which is a non-terminal, and a right-hand
side (RHS), which is a string of terminals and/or non-terminals
• Non-terminals are often enclosed in angle brackets
– Examples of BNF rules:
<ident_list> → identifier | identifier, <ident_list>
<if_stmt> → if <logic_expr> then <stmt>
• Grammar: a finite non-empty set of rules
• A start symbol is a special element of the nonterminals of a grammar
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9. BNF Rules
• An abstraction (or nonterminal symbol) can
have more than one RHS
<stmt> → <single_stmt>
| begin <stmt_list> end
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10. Describing Lists
• Syntactic lists are described using recursion
<ident_list> → ident
| ident, <ident_list>
• A derivation is a repeated application of rules,
starting with the start symbol and ending with
a sentence (all terminal symbols)
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11. An Example Grammar & Derivation
<program> → <stmts>
<stmts> → <stmt> |
<stmt> ; <stmts>
<stmt> → <var> = <expr>
<var> → a | b | c | d
<expr> → <term> + <term> |
<term> - <term>
<term> → <var> | const
<program> => <stmts> => <stmt>
=> <var> = <expr>
=> a = <expr>
=> a = <term> + <term>
=> a = <var> + <term>
=> a = b + <term>
=> a = b + const
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12. An Example Derivation
<program> => <stmts> => <stmt>
=> <var> = <expr>
=> a = <expr>
=> a = <term> + <term>
=> a = <var> + <term>
=> a = b + <term>
=> a = b + const
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13. Derivations
• Every string of symbols in a derivation is a
sentential form
• A sentence is a sentential form that has only
terminal symbols
• A leftmost derivation is one in which the
leftmost nonterminal in each sentential form
is the one that is expanded
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14. Parse Tree
• A hierarchical representation of a derivation
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15. Ambiguity in Grammars
• A grammar is ambiguous if and only if it generates a sentential
form that has two or more distinct parse trees
• some string that it can generate in more than one way
• semantic information is needed to select the intended parse
• For example, in C the following:
– x * y ; can be interpreted as either:
• the declaration of an identifier named y of type pointer-to-x, or
• an expression in which x is multiplied by y and then the result is
discarded.
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17. Associativity of Operators
• Operator associativity can also be indicated by a grammar
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18. Extended BNF
• Optional parts (0 or one) are placed in
brackets [ ]
<proc_call> → ident [(<expr_list>)]
• Alternative parts of RHSs are placed inside
parentheses and separated via vertical bars
<term> → <term> (+|-) const
• Repetitions (0 or more) are placed inside
braces { }
<ident> → letter {letter|digit}
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20. Semantics
• BNF in the form of CFG is used to describe the syntax
of a programming language
• It can not describe the semantics (meaning) of the
programming language statements, expressions, etc.
• There are two categories of semantics:
– Static semantics: semantic rules that can be checked
during compile time (i.e., prior to runtime). As an example,
variables in a program must be "declared" before they are
referenced.
– Dynamic semantics: semantic rules that apply during the
execution of a program.
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21. Attribute Grammars
• Attribute grammars (AGs) have additions to
CFGs to carry some semantic info on parse
tree nodes
• Primary value of AGs:
– Static semantics specification
– Compiler design (static semantics checking)
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22. Attribute Grammars : Definition
• Def: An attribute grammar is a context-free
grammar G = (S, N, T, P) with the following
additions:
– For each grammar symbol x there is a set A(x) of
attribute values
– Each rule has a set of functions that define certain
attributes of the nonterminals in the rule
– Each rule has a (possibly empty) set of predicates
to check for attribute consistency
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23. Attribute Grammars: Definition
• Let X0 X1 ... Xn be a rule
• Functions of the form S(X0) = f(A(X1), ... , A(Xn))
define synthesized attributes
• Functions of the form I(Xj) = f(A(X0), ... , A(Xn)),
for i <= j <= n, define inherited attributes
• Initially, there are intrinsic attributes on the
leaves
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24. Attribute Grammars: An Example
• Syntax
<assign> -> <var> = <expr>
<expr> -> <var> + <var> | <var>
<var> A | B | C
• actual_type: synthesized for <var> and
<expr>
• expected_type: inherited for <expr>
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26. Attribute Grammars (continued)
• How are attribute values computed?
– If all attributes were inherited, the tree could be
decorated in top-down order.
– If all attributes were synthesized, the tree could be
decorated in bottom-up order.
– In many cases, both kinds of attributes are used,
and it is some combination of top-down and
bottom-up that must be used.
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28. Semantics
• There is no single widely acceptable notation
or formalism for describing semantics
• Several needs for a methodology and
notation for semantics:
– Programmers need to know what statements mean
– Compiler writers must know exactly what language constructs do
– Correctness proofs would be possible
– Compiler generators would be possible
– Designers could detect ambiguities and inconsistencies
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29. Operational Semantics
• Operational Semantics
– Describe the meaning of a program by executing
its statements on a machine, either simulated or
actual. The change in the state of the machine
(memory, registers, etc.) defines the meaning of
the statement
• To use operational semantics for a high-level
language, a virtual machine is needed
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30. Denotational Semantics
• Based on recursive function theory
• The most abstract semantics description
method
• Originally developed by Scott and Strachey
(1970)
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