Syntactic Analysis
Explore syntactic analysis to transform tokens from lexical analysis into an abstract syntax tree. Understand how ASTs represent code structure, support error detection, and enable compiler phases like optimization and code generation.
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Syntactic analysis
Syntactic analysis, also known as parsing, is the second stage in compiler construction. Its main goal is to convert the stream of tokens generated by the lexical analysis stage into a tree-like structure called an abstract syntax tree (AST) that represents the program’s structure.
Abstract syntax tree (AST)
An abstract syntax tree (AST) is a widely adopted choice for representing the syntactic structure of programming code during syntax analysis for several compelling reasons:
Hierarchical structure: An abstract syntax tree (AST) naturally mirrors the hierarchical structure of programming languages. It captures relationships between ...