While compilers for high-level programming languages are large
complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that
differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality
is almost completely well-defined ideally there exist complete
precise descriptions of the source and target languages. Additional
descriptions of the interfaces to the operating system, programming
system and programming environment, and to other compilers and
libraries are often available.
This book deals with the analysis phase of translators for
programming languages. It describes lexical, syntactic and semantic
analysis, specification mechanisms for these tasks from the theory
of formal languages, and methods for automatic generation based on
the theory of automata. The authors present a conceptual
translation structure, i.e., a division into a set of modules,
which transform an input program into a sequence of steps in a
machine program, and they then describe the interfaces between the
modules. Finally, the structures of real translators are outlined.
The book contains the necessary theory and advice for
implementation.
This book is intended for students of computer science. The book
is supported throughout with examples, exercises and program
fragments.
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