4
Syntax Analyzer
What you will learn in this chapter
- Some basic parsing terms
- Recursive-descent Parser
- Top-down parsing
- Bottom-up parsing
- Various types of LL(1) grammars and parsers
- Shift/Reduce and Operator precedence parser
- LR(0), SLR(1), LR(1) and LALR(1) parsers
- What are conflict situations in LR parsers?
- How conflicts are resolved?
- Compiler writing tools– yacc, bison and ANTLR
Key Words
syntax analysis, parser, RDP, Top-down, Bottom-up, LL(1), LR(0), SLAR(1), LR(1), LALR(1), conflicts, resolution of conflicts, yacc, bison
Parsing is a general term meaning analyzing a sentence to arrive at its syntactic structure. From theoretical viewpoint, lexical analysis is also parsing, only the atoms of the language involved are at finer granularity. ...
Get Compilers: Principles and Practice now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
