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Compilers: Principles and Practice by Pearson

by Parag H. Dave, Himanshu B. Dave
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
17h 10m
English
Pearson India
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58 Compilers – Principles and Practice
3.2 Symbol Tables and a Scanner
Though as suggested above and in Figs. 3.1 and 3.2, Symbol Tables are created during the Scanner
phase of a compiler, their real use and manipulations will be needed during the semantic analysis
phase and as such we postpone full discussion of Symbol Table handling techniques till Section 5.5
in Chapter 5. However, the Scanner does initiate building up of the Symbol Table and here we
discuss building a skeleton Symbol Table, with whatever information is available with the Scanner.
A general discussion about Symbol Tables is given in Appendix B, Section B.2.3.
In anticipation ...
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